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Empty Land, Full Land, Poor Folk, Rich Folk

Empty Land, Full Land, Poor Folk, Rich Folk Empty Land, Full Land, Poor Folk, Rich Folk Daniel B. Luten' My thesis is simplicity itself. We came, poor people, into an empty continent. We devised resource management policies for an empty land and for poor people. Now the land is full and we are rich beyond earthly precedent. Our needs have changed and, ever faster, still change. But we have failed to abandon, to adapt, to invent resource policies to keep up. And so we stretch, warp, patch, wire up, lick and promise. But it won't work. Now let me pick up a little about "systems" from an earlier paper.1 A system is simply some object of interest, a nucleus together with its significant environment. Its significant environment is what influences it, what constrains it, what guides it on its course through time. In natural resources inquiry the inescapable nucleus of the system is man. But, try as we may, the task of understanding this system is beyond us. We must turn, and it is a token of defeat to do this, to subordinate systems, to resource systems. In such subsystems the nucleus may be the resource itself--a few dozen whooping cranes, lands. a Douglas-fir forest, a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers University of Hawai'I Press

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Empty Land, Full Land, Poor Folk, Rich Folk Daniel B. Luten' My thesis is simplicity itself. We came, poor people, into an empty continent. We devised resource management policies for an empty land and for poor people. Now the land is full and we are rich beyond earthly precedent. Our needs have changed and, ever faster, still change. But we have failed to abandon, to adapt, to invent resource policies to keep up. And so we stretch, warp, patch, wire up, lick and promise. But it won't work. Now let me pick up a little about "systems" from an earlier paper.1 A system is simply some object of interest, a nucleus together with its significant environment. Its significant environment is what influences it, what constrains it, what guides it on its course through time. In natural resources inquiry the inescapable nucleus of the system is man. But, try as we may, the task of understanding this system is beyond us. We must turn, and it is a token of defeat to do this, to subordinate systems, to resource systems. In such subsystems the nucleus may be the resource itself--a few dozen whooping cranes, lands. a Douglas-fir forest, a

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Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast GeographersUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Oct 1, 1969

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