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| Here we met our host for lunch, Henri Njoo, returning from having just purchased a brand new dugout canoe, as if returning from the local car dealership. THIS is the way the transport from Edea used to be, a kind of transport - slow and effort-rich - that would have influenced in a major way to the balance between the predation ability/intensity of the hunters supplying Edea with bushmeat, and the replacement rates of the animal populations contributing that bushmeat. On the other hand, this kind of transport would not be very sensitive to fluctuations in the cost of gasoline on the world market. However, there are some hidden considerations - it is not clear how much fossil fuel somewhere goes into producing the food that it takes to paddle a canoe of this ilk the same distance a gallon of gas will take the aluminum outboard motorboat. Not all interdependencies are as conspicuous as the Texaco gas station in Edea. | ||
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