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xongsmith
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Message 50 of 94 (736408)
09-09-2014 1:43 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by Stile
09-09-2014 11:11 AM


Stile & Leeroy continue:
By the time the world has been urbanized...
This idea seems to imply that urbanization is a good thing and should be desired. Maybe we should take a look to see if we actually want to urbanize everything. Perhaps it would be better to leave some areas non-urbanized and find a way to control our population increase.
When I was working for the Regional Planning Commission it was instructive to point out how open space needs to be preserved and that Golf Courses and Cemetaries were the biggest forces to do that, outside of state & national forests.
We wouldn't want Earth to turn into the planet Trantor of Asimov's Foundation series.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 68 of 94 (736531)
09-11-2014 2:13 AM
Reply to: Message 44 by NoNukes
09-09-2014 1:35 AM


NoNukes asks:
Isn't it buried bodies that are worm food?
continuing a long thread all of us repeat here of conveniently using a mistaken English literature notion of worms.
Worms eating dead bodies is NOT true. After the bloflies & usual insect encroachment, by the time the worms get to it, it is reduced to tiny transformed crud on the sides of grains of sand that the worms consume, as they glean the sand grains, along with much other intermixed organic material.
But never mind that....

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