Posted on 12/27/2005 4:58:53 AM PST by liberallarry
If you think it is so beautiful and in demand, buy it. You can pay the mortgage with all the tourism. It's not an unlivable god-forsaken waste, is it?
Jungle grows over molten lava flows all over the world. It is a point about the robustness of life and its ability to reclaim land from bare rock. And it is not like we need to be in a hurry. See previous.
The population density for Papua is about 5 people per square mile. There is a people that lives in that area, but I don't have specific info at hand. If you wish I can look it up and get back to you this evening.
I don't have the financial wherewithal to purchase it. Also with the possibility of a revolution being so prominent, I don't think it would be a wise idea to purchase land which may be confiscated at any time.
I would agree with you that the earth heals itself and very quickly, too. My disagreement with you is that it is volcanic land. Most of what I have seen is not. It is on folded-mountains, a different formation process altogether. Your point, if I understand it, is that the jungle regrows and changes there very fast. I agree with that.
It isn't a god-forsaken waste at all. God has definitely not forsaken it and has been sending many people there to give His Word to those living there. There are over 250 indigenous languages and He wants them to know Him.
I simply do not believe the NYT. They have no street cred.
It's not as simple as that. You have to know what their biases are, what they're likely to distort or to miss or to exagerate. Same as with any other source.
And I did not ask about all of New Guineau nor Papua as a state, I asked about the specific site. I've researched this before you know, you are not the first person to have brought it to my attention, or to anyone else's.
And I never said it was volcanic land, you are reading in straw man positions. Fresh lava is an even more inhospitable landscape for any living thing than an open mudslide without topsoil. And vegetation has no difficulty whatever in reclaiming it - in short order. There is no need to keep something "pristine" that is not valued in its present state, and regrows on it own.
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