by Carel Two-Eagle

Created on: April 20, 2008

China is no more a breeding ground for viruses and bacteria than any other place on earth. Our Holy Mother the Earth is a dirt ball, after all, and dirt is where viruses and bacteria grow! By the same token, not all bacteria and viruses are bad. We need bacteria in our guts in order to process our food, for example. Without them, we become sick and die.

What China is, is a prime example of where the rest of the world will be in short order if humans don't stop over-populating themselves. If your idea of 'how to live' includes cheek-by-jowl with your neighbors, China is the place, and role model, for you.

The Chinese people have practiced infanticide for centuries, focussing on females, since
Chinese culture - old and 'modern' - values only males. In recent years, this has resulted in problems for the Chinese, as they have developed a considerable excess of males, and have no 'suitable' females for them to mate and produce their one legal child with. Non-mainland-Chinese are not 'suitable' in Chinese culture, and mixed bloods of any kind are treated very badly there. In this, the Chinese share a behavior with much of Asia.

The Chinese have so over-populated their land that their government has been forced to mandate one child per couple, with stiff fines and even jail for those who try to circumvent this law. Small wonder, then, that virus-disease outbreaks occur more commonly in China..

All of which speaks to the problems Chinese agriculture faces as it tries to feed its teeming billions of humans. But the problem is not one of China's agriculture, or even of China's, uniquely. It is a problem of too many humans for the available land, of which Takuskanskan has not seen fit to make any more (and isn't likely to).

Thus, the problem is not one of Chinese agriculture's insufficiency, or of incorrect agricultural practices; it is Mother Nature's ordinary response to an excess of humans who refuse to do the responsible thing and limit their numbers - and decrease them - to levels where ALL species can live in peace, harmony, and comfort, as Takuskanskan intended when It began to develop the world so very long ago.

If you put too many of any species in an enclosure, you will invariably see problems; and that is what we are seeing happening in China now. China is the 'mine canary' for the rest of the world. But the problem is not one of incorrect Chinese agricultural practices.. It is one of too many humans packed too closely together, resulting in the normal response of Nature to over-population of any species - it kills some of them off.

This is not a tragedy. It is normal. Thus the threat to world health comes from human reproductive irresponsibility; not from Chinese agricultural practices, and the threat is to every species that we humans share our Holy Mother the Earth with, not merely to us humans.

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