the strongest statement in there flint is overpopulation. before europeans came here there was maybe a few hundred thousand natives? i dunno, i couldnt find the census report. today with a population well over 30 million, that is the biggest reason for changes to the environment..... farming, forestry yada yada to satisfy demands of an ever growing human population. canada has nowhere near the population density of other places in the world, and i for one appreciate that fact very much.
i think it was the movie "the matrix" that pointed out how a virus depletes and destroys everything in its environment in its quest to reproduce and then when there is nothing left moves on to a new environment. the other organism that does this is humans. sadly thats kinda true.
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