It's truly an ill wind that doesn't bring some healthy results. Could the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death- be a guilty pleasure for environmentalists?
The Audubon Society recently released its census of the U.S. bird population. In the past 40 years, 20 common birds in America have lost app. 50% of their population. Some species have suffered even more. The count of Northern Bobwhite has plummeted 82%. The Northern Pintail have lost 77% of its numbers. The Audubon Society blames urban and suburban sprawl. It also says that greedy logging and farming practices leave birds and wildlife without habitat.
During the same 40 years starting in 1967, the U.S. population increased from 200 million to 300 million. Also the U.S. GDP has expanded from app. $ 800 billion to app. $ 12 trillion. The trade off between wildlife loss and human gain is obvious. And America is only a model of what is happening on the larger world scene. Are we as a species worth the dislocation to every other species? Have we become a quantity of infestation and a non-quality personal species?
Maybe a revaluation of the Four Horsemen is in order. Oh yeah, I don't want a " New Jerusalem" as per revelations. I've got a belly full of the old Jerusalem.
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