Reply #1: Where is Sherwood Forest?

[zipplewrath]

I've walked in alot of England. Heck, I've walked ACROSS England. I'd wager that there's no place on that island nation that constitutes more than 5 acres of "natural" habitat. It came to me one day when someone asked "where is Sherwood forest"? They cut it ALL down. For ships, for fire wood, for farming, they cut it all down. Truth is, what we know today as the "Black Forest" of Germany used to stretch well into France.

Mr Standage is correct, farming would be considered, today, to be one large "industrial hazard". By the time we figured out what we were doing, huge portions of the earth had been "converted" to agricultural land. Smaller areas had been nearly permanently damaged from practices like irrigation with brackish water, over tilling, or excessive irrigation up stream.

Hydro electric dams could probably be shown to be less "damaging", because although it creates an "artificial" habitat in one sense, at least it is creating A habitat. Farming just "consumes" the land without creating anything except one single crop. Heck, some crops need bees brought in because they won't arrive on their own. We can do better, and some day we'll NEED to do better. That day may be closer than one thinks.