VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Tropical rain forests produce one- fifth of the earth's oxygen, contain half of all plant and animal species, and provide ingredients for one-fourth of our pharmaceuticals. So what's behind the shortsighted destruction of this treasure? Here's one cause: Indigenous tribes often believe they can make a better living by chopping down the forests and using the land for farming. Why should they care about the global perspective, they argue, when they're struggling to survive? Only recently, though, evidence has emerged that proves the locals can actually make more money from wild-harvesting sustainable resources like medicinal plants, fruits, nuts, and oils than they can from growing subsistence crops. Now let's take this vignette and apply it as a metaphor to your current life situation, Virgo: By clinging to a source of meager value, you're depriving yourself (and the world) of a richer alternative.
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branchandroot
How interesting...
Date: 2002-11-26 11:43 pm (UTC)fifth of the earth's oxygen, contain half of all plant and animal
species, and provide ingredients for one-fourth of our
pharmaceuticals. So what's behind the shortsighted destruction
of this treasure? Here's one cause: Indigenous tribes often
believe they can make a better living by chopping down the
forests and using the land for farming. Why should they care
about the global perspective, they argue, when they're
struggling to survive? Only recently, though, evidence has
emerged that proves the locals can actually make more money
from wild-harvesting sustainable resources like medicinal
plants, fruits, nuts, and oils than they can from growing
subsistence crops. Now let's take this vignette and apply it as a
metaphor to your current life situation, Virgo: By clinging to a
source of meager value, you're depriving yourself (and the
world) of a richer alternative.