Excuse me guys, but the increase in population of humans on this planet as tragedy-in-the-making is, to my mind, an excessively gloomy and itself unnatural interpretation of events. I am all for going green, getting smart about the uses of ebergy, being a bit kinder and gentler to the other critters now that we have dominated the whole ball. I am all for upbraiding my fellow man to do a better job of being one of Gaia's brain cells. But let me point out that our own natures have come throug in some wonderful ways and that we already support much higher densities of population than we would be able to with just the rest of nature to go on. Where does the idea come from, though, that the ecology of understanding which we have contributed to this planet is "unnatural?", or that our channeling of "natural" forces, such as gravity and chemical attributes, is somehow in itself a wrong path? The problems we face have uniformly come about, as I look at it, from insufficient understanding, not from too much. We don't need to abandon our hard-earned skills, and we don't need to throw away babies. I submoit for reflection that are talents for housing and water systems are as much a product of our God-given natures as a spider's web on a dewy morning, no less.

What we need is deeper insight into the interlocking systems among which we are at play. ))).

Regards,

Amos