Our
human ecology is that of a rare species of mammal in a social, omnivorous
niche. Our demography is one of a slow breeding, large, primate. To shatter our
population structure, to become abundant in the way of rodents, not only
destroys our ecological relations with the rest of nature, it sets the stage
for our mass insanity.
This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from from page 169 of the
1998 book ‘Coming Home to the
Pleistocene’ by the late american ecologist Paul Shepard (1925
– 1996).
He then goes on to quote from Konrad Lorentz
and Paul Leyhausen’s 1973 book
‘Motivation of Human and Animal Behaviour : An Ethological View’ –
Space
… is indispensable for the psychological and mental health of humans
… Overcrowding is a menace to mankind long before general and
insurmountable food shortages set in. The increase in human numbers is not
primarily a food problem, it is a psychological, sociological, mental health
problem … We have to realise that human nature sets a far narrower limit
to human adaptability to overcrowding than is commonly believed.
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