[Grovenet] Celebrate Independence Day, buy some foreign oil

[David Morelli]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Robert VanNatta wrote:

> That would depend on where of you speak.
>
> Ireland was deforested as soon as the brass hatchet was invented,  
> and some reforestation has been started in the last 25 years.
>
> The US is reforesting at a substantial rate.
>
> Meanwhile elsewhere the picture is not so pretty, with roving  
> subsistence agriculture being the largest issue in tropical areas.
>


Okay.  Roving subsistence agriculture was sufficient for several  
thousand years, what has changed?

Is the problem related to population growth or something else?

David