Responce to Juliet Schor

I think public consumption has gotten out of control. What happened to the days when you did with what you had or what you could afford. The credit debt of America today is outrages. I do not feel that it is just the cnsumers fault either. The commercial that is on T.B. today, I think it is for a visa card or some kind of card that you just scan under a scanner and it automatically withdraws from an account or adds on to a credit card. In the commercial people are going through line getting things for lunch and every thing is flowing perfectly, everyone is in tune with the other, they know exactly what the otheer person is doing and where they are going to go. Then there is a person that is in line and pays with cash and the whole line falls apart. People fall down and food hits the floor, every thing is in shambles because some one used cash instead of the high zoot card. The person paying with cash just interrupted the flow of life. As soon as that person gets change and is out the door every thing goes back to normal. This just shows ho lfe is lived in the fast lane today. No one is satisfied with what they have. They have to "one up" the person next to them or they do not fell adequate. Every one is in the fast lane to afraid to pull over into the slow lane, because they might get passed by the person behind them. There are very few peoplt who care about credit anymore, whether it is having bad credit or the fact thay you owe someone money. That is all having credit is, owing someone money, in this case it is a bank or a card company. It is funny how a person knows how much money is owed to them, but how quickly they forget when they owe the money to some one else.

Hunting Ethical

Being an avid hunter my self I could relate to this essay. Causey does a great job at bringing out bithe the hunter and the non hunters point of view. I personally have not looked to highly upon the non hunter side of things, all though there is something to said about both sides of the issue. I feel that neither side knows much about the others point of view. The non hunter wants every thing to be left to a natural state and let nature take its couse. The problem with that is the fact that humans have messed with the natural cycle so much that you can not just stop hunting and expect things bo be all fine and dandy. Sure eventually things will resume to a natural cycle but no with out a whole lot of cause in between. There are things such as human encrochment that have a sot more impact on wildlife than hunting does. Any place that is level enough to build on probably has a structure on it, or has a plan to put one there. Most of the places that are inhabited by people are wildlife winter range. If there are people there the wildlife will find a new place th winter. With more people than wildlife the wintering grounds will end up full of people and no place for wildlife. This is where hunting comes into play, with state regulated hunting seasons it will lesson the amount of wildlife that need to find places to winter. Now I am no saying go out and decimate a species of animal, but regulate and maintain the wintering grounds that are currently used by wildlife and do not allow subdivisions to be built on or near the current wintering grounds. With the hunting season this will help maintain animal numbers for the habitat that is currently available to use.