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{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2509;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 Beginning of the Jolly Good Feller Scenario\par
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\par Fires in Alaska, felled trees in Canada and
Siberia. It was really up to the people. Fellers exceeded planters .\par
\par Where ever there is humankind, there is depletion.
There just seems to be a really dark side to the human psyche. People seem to be takers.\par
\par I hear the gambling phrase, "winner takes
all". But it really amounts to loser takes all. I mean, it's obvious, you just can't
be taking things without being able to put something back. But that's how these people
are. And it's been going on for a longtime now.\par
\par Even back in prehistoric times, many animals
were depleted by human hunters -- such animals as the woolly mammoth. Also throughout history,
trees had been depleted, with hardly anyone putting anything back. I mean, it's so easy
to replant trees. Human beings don't even have to do it. They just give the seeds to
the squirrels and the squirrels will go out and plant the trees.\par
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This is not just a problem with trees. When I was in the Pacific . I heard about local
skin diver's going out with plastic bags filled with
bleach. They popped the bags open along the coral reef and the bleach killed everything
for huge radius, and then the diver just went down and gathered the fish. Others would set
off charges of dynamite and just go in the water and gather all the dead fish. They must
have thought they were using dine I might.\par \par
It's a disappointing to hear the "oh, well" attitude people have when confronted with
the depleted resource.
You wonder how they could be so stupid, how pathetic and incapable of reasoning. I get
to the point where have to realize that these people really are that way and they have to be pitied. After all, it
is really terribly pathetic.\par \par
There is a great benefit to renewing a resource. Maybe not immediately economically, but then
money is worthless. I want you to realize, kid, if people stopped believing the
money was worth anything, it would all go out the window tomorrow and there would be
nothing left but oblivion, and people killing each other in the streets and herding children
for food because eating adults would be too unpleasant for cannibals.\par
\par But nevertheless renewing a resource does
bear great economic return. For example helping fish stock in the sea to renew themselves
would yield tremendous economic prosperity, not only for fishermen, but for a whole slew
of related economic activities. If people had feeding stations in their yard not just
for wild birds, but also for squirrels, and the appropriate squirrel food would be the
actual tree seeds themselves, usually in the form of very nutritious nuts, there would
be a tremendous renewal of arboreal resources and subsequent prosperity -- extreme prosperity
for every economic aspect of the related communities.\par \par
That's what I mean when I say, sometimes have to wonder how those people could be so stupid.
They sit there and wonder why they've got recessions, economic hardships, labor and
management problems, cook-the-bookers, white-collar crime, just any old kind of crime -- it's
all related to this take-only mentality, where the fellers exceed the planters.\par
\par And, lookout Buddy, because here they come
-- everybody's singing "for he's a Jolly Good Feller" -- and they're just beginning
to get wound up. This is only the beginning of the Jolly Good Feller scenario. This is
where some feel-good idiot starts asking "are we having fun yet?".\par
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