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Brian Smith
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Migration
March 31, 2004 - 08:59 AM
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How do we stem the tide of people moving from the country and settling in the city? Does this need to be stopped? What are the environmental and social implications of this movement?
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Re: Migration
April 1, 2004 - 02:22 AM
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I don't think its fair to say it is no longer sustainable to live off the land. It is just time consuming, and in economics, time is money. So living off the land is rather expensive and unrealistic. It is doable, but not practical due to today's technology and economy.
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Re: Migration
April 1, 2004 - 06:04 AM
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I agree with Oldfield about the growing disconnect between people and nature. I think that with an increasingly city-centred society, people will start to believe more and more that the natural world has no effect on their everyday lives. When the population secludes themselves from nature, they raise children that have no sense of the natural world around them and the roles rural areas play in their lives. The food just shows up in the supermarket and they buy it without a thought of where it came from. Water just comes out of the tap when you turn it and they never have wells that will run dry. Environmentally, the implications are bad because when people dissociate with nature this much it means that they no longer care enough to take care of it.
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Jessie Giles
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April 1, 2004 - 07:36 AM
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I just have to add that I have spoken to young city children who didn't even know that fruit and vegetable grew!!! How they thought they were made I am unsure. But it just shows how much as human we are becoming detached to nature and natural living, for a child not to know that fruit and vegetables that we eat come from a natural source is unbelievable and wrong. Even the fact that those children would not have recieved the joy of picking an apple of a tree or digging up potatoes from the ground. Or even planting a plant and knowing that in a period of time you will be able to eat the produce when it has grown!!
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Christine Oldfield
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April 1, 2004 - 10:56 AM
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With less people living and working in rural areas I feel that there is a growing disconnect between humans and the natural world.
The survival of people who live off the land (farming, fishing, mining etc) is very much dependent on the health of our natural ecosystems. Rural peoples, therefore, represent both the witnesses of environmental destruction and also the victims. What happens in the rural areas very much reflects what is happening to the natural world. If living off the land is no longer sustainable what does this say about the potential of our limited natural resources to sustain us in the future?
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Re: Migration
April 4, 2004 - 01:40 AM
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I agree with oldfield toez and jessg.
I like cities alright, but there is nothing like the experience of going up to a forest and taking in the wonderful beauty of absence of traffic noise and polluted air. I go up to Flaggstaff, Arizona alot and I go hiking in the forests that are around. Man the air is SO fresh compared to the air near my home. And the sky is a beautiful blue. Thr trees smell wonderful. The silence is so great you can walk through the forest and take in the beauty of nature and be with your own thoughts with no interuption. You can be one with nature like our ancestors were
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Why Migration from Rural Area
April 11, 2004 - 10:08 AM
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Migration from Rural area has been a world-wide phenomena
that has been most severe in last 50 years in the free post-colonnial developing countries of the Third World. Western countries have had the land in North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and islands across the globe to diffuse their population growth in post industrial era.
This is my short theory on how they happened!
The rural-urban shift happened (unlike pressure of rapid popultion growth..what is taught in the school) because of gradual replacement of barter system that prevailed in rural areas with the modern monetary system of centralized banking connected to commercial banks. Banking money or credit is no longer backed by gold or precious metals and it is based on fractional reserve! Banks create $100 credit (money that is loaned to individuals, businesses and government) for every $7-10 in deposit they hold, since people do not all require their money at the same time. Fractional Reserve and compound interest which originated in England is basically a way of siphoning planet's resources to a few wealthy banking families.
The only way people in rural areas can make money is through work or job like everybody else. However, unlike urban areas there were no industrial-service type jobs available in rural areas. The only way they got money was from moneylenders through the collateral of land..which they soon lost due to outrageous interest..and in exchange of their labor (many became bonded labor to landholding wealthy for generation). Small farmers had to rely on money to buy seeds, fertilizer, water and equipment that were available without exchanging money in the cooperative local barter system. Illiterate rural people migrated in urban areas in millions...you can see them in Slums of Bombay and Kolkata and elsewhere. These people are innocent victims of the money and banking system adopted worldwide in western countries (notably England followed by US) and implanted in former colonies. The problem of unemployment, homelessness, urban decay, wide inequality in income is also begining to
impact many areas in western countries. Read some of the links and articles in my site. Solution is possible, but we need to understand the nature of the problem first.
Cheers
http://www.seek2know.net/id30.html
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