Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics

On Thu, 4 May 2000 13:24:10 +0200 Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
writes:
> And invoking nanotech and so on to make deserts and mountains
> livable
> won't help. There is six acres of dry land for each person now
> living.
> How large a territory does a hunter supporting a family need?
> There is only one animal on Earth abundant enough to allow hunting
> to
> be our main source of protein (cf. Swift). That solution should
> speed
> up the transition quite a lot too.
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour
> NOT marked)
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Although hunter-gatherers rely a lot more on gathering than on hunting.
With seashore people it gets more complicated, since you've got fish, but
in general, on land, it's the gathering which is the source of most of
the nutrition.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "a bisl zun, a bisl regn; a ruik ort dem kop çu legn,
  abi gezint ken men gliklex zain..."