Bringing Back the Panda, and the World

2013 WAS THE YEAR OF the resurgence of the panda bear! This is the most positive development of the past year. In 2013 forty two pandas were born in captivity around the world. There was a time when nobody could get pandas to mate in captivity, so this new develpoment is profound, and it virtually guarantees that pandas will not go extinct. At last count, there were roughly sixteen hundred of them living in the wild. That isn't enough, of course. For a country of a billion and a half people however, China does a great job of preserving wilderness and wildlife habitat. Its land mass is enormous, which helps, but good stewardship of natural resources is starting to take hold in China. They are moving towards sustainable energy, cleaner temporary use of carbon based planet killing energies, and preservation of the beautiful, wonderful panda. The fact that most Chinese live in huge cities, hundreds of huge cities of millions of people each, tends to open up the rural areas for agriculture and wildlife. A future planet with a reasonable human population total, and efficient human use of land and resources can allow wildlife to flourish everywhere in the world, alongside people. Can you imagine it? A few billion humans living for the most part in apartment buildings in cities, and freeing most of teh earth's land for wolderness? A lovely future option. It should be possible to rebirth species of plants and animals which have already gone extinct, transfer to solar energy just as soon as we use up every drop of oil and every lump of coal in the world, plant trees, desalinate water, and presto! The world is reborn!