"Our planet may be home to 30 million different kinds of animals and plants. Each individual is locked into its own lifelong fight for survival. Everywhere you look, on land or in the ocean, there are extraordinary examples of the lengths living things go to to stay alive.
A hundred years ago, there were one and a half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet. But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity. Let's go and have a look at one of these.
The lockdowns caused by Covid-19 outbreaks are forcing people to rediscover their basic defense systems and to learn that they don't need to socialise with others.
A good case in point is Richard, who claims to be the inventor of 'Bass Bagging'. He is the author of a rather obscure blog and, for many years, has lived in the wild at the extreme edge of humanity. It may well be that this experience and, indeed, the isolated location may work to his advantage. The things that he has done that isolated him from others - throwing old ladies newspapers over the fence, interfering with neighbours' rubbish, making annoying sounds etc. might now keep him safe.
Three and a half million years separate the individual who left footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left them on the moon, but today, we need to be aware that leaving our footprints behind on lawns, in flower gardens and on front steps of houses is not the done thing. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we control the population to allow the survival of the environment. Keeping people like this 'bass bagger' inside and away from others could be the way of the future.
We may never know and certainly won't know if promulgation of information is dependant on people reading Richard's Bass Bag."
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Gosh, there's some dodgy grammar and editing in that post!
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