[Age of Reason]

46 percent of Earth is still wilderness, researchers report

That we are already down to only 46 percent is alarming.

Were we to see a graph showing the increasing rate at which wilderness has been disappearing, the problem would be more apparent.

When I was a kid, my older textbooks still showed maps having areas marked as "unexplored."

[Clemenza]

Overhead photos (if they were available) of New York State in the 1920s would show A LOT of land cleared for farming. Today, more has returned to wilderness and Deer, Bear and other fauna (to say nothing of the flora) have grown way above historical levels.

Then again, look at a nation like Haiti which became deforested in the 19th Century, but has never recovered.

[Monitor]

The state of Texas has 261,914 square miles of land. That's 167,624,962 acres. The U.S. Bureau of the Census estimates that the population of the U.S. is currently at 288,639,900 individuals.

If we subdivided all of the land area of Texas into half acre lots, every human being in America could live in Texas, alone on their own half acre lot, with room left over for another 46,610,024 people.

That is how sparsely populated this country really is.

[blackie]

"That we are already down to only 46 percent is alarming."

Not at all, we only need 20% wilderness!

We need to harvest timber, build more fish hatcheries, recend the ESA, drill for oil in that vast wasteland called ANWR and also drill for oil off shore on all of our coasts!

Plus, every family needs to own an SUV with a V-8 engine!

Property Rights...Bump!

Stop the attacks on our Freedoms by the wacko, extreme left-wing, lunatic fringe, dirt worshipping Green Jihadist, enviro-nazis terrorist's and their toadies in the media!

Protect The Forest...Eradicate The Greenies!

Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For!

Let's Roll!

Molon Labe!