Exploit The Earth Or Die

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This is not a threat or an ultimatum but a reality. With all the talk from government of high environmental standards for everything from the electricity that your house uses to the car you drive we need a reality check. Either man takes from the Earth such as trees, petroleum, aluminum, and transforms them into the requirements of his life, or he dies. To live, man must produce the goods on which his life depends he must produce homes, automobiles, computers, electricity, etc, he must seize nature and use it to his advantage. There is no escaping this fact. Even the allegedly “noble” savage must pick or perish. Indeed, even if a person produces nothing, insofar as he remains alive he indirectly exploits the Earth by parasitically surviving off the exploitative efforts of others. Conservation does not create it just stretches existing amount of resources. At some point conservation ceases to be a valid solution. Let say you need two hundred dollars tomorrow yet you only have one hundred dollar. You can conserve all day but that will not create another hundred dollars.