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Elaboration 8
The ancient Chinese were aware of the fact that trees
produce and regulate their own climate. A fact not even
known today in Iran, Nepal, etc. It is written by Nora Waln
in connection with the same awareness in Germany, before
there was awareness of acid rain, in 1937. Speaking already
of a past, she remarked on the awareness of the Germans for
their backfiring policy of clearing (?) forest for arable
soil.
"Instead of an increase in the food supply, they had
less. Seasons of flood and seasons of drought were successive.
Wind blew away soil and seed. Even the rain
changed its behaviour. Clouds floated by without dropping their moisture or else let it down in torrents, to
run away as fast as it fell."
Nowadays, in the same Germany, the writing on the wall (the
'Waelder') is unmistakable. Waln however, has not told how
Hitler around the 20ties, was already concerned with industrial
pollution, long before there was such general awareness
as there is today. The man who simply picks-off the
fruit of the trees (as the animals do), does not harm nature
very much, unless he is overabundant. It is the invention
of implements (saw, axe, fire, etc.) that makes for massive
destruction, at first unnoticed (Athens), now becoming
lethal. It shows clearly what these old sages knew (Stoics
e.g.) that essentials are easy to come by (food, shelter
etc.) and this does not disturb nature, but for luxuries, we
need craftsmen, implements, industry, advertising, selling
competition, and ... the end is lost.
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2007-09-11