but you can only live the life you do because the other 7.6 billion people on this overpopulated world are grinding 24/7 in towns and cities
However, I think the whole argument of sustainability falls over when the trapping and hunting is for money not for survival. As soon as anyone starts to hunt for the 'city' the balance is lost. It would be a bit like a sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) hunting for its own brood and a thousand other sparrowhawk families that sit around paying for their food; the prey species wouldn't last.
Just my thoughts ....
Broch
Maybe so, but nothing to stop the people in the cities come here or elsewhere is there? Or do you expect us to thank all the moneyaw who live in cities for their kindness?
I never used the word sustainability. `but sustainability is what our life is about. If its not sustainable how come we - and lots of other 1st nation people from around the world - are still living much the same as we've have all done for a long time? If our traditional life is so not sustainable, how come we've been doing it so long? (we make little money sell fur nowadays).
I think the one hawk hunting for other hawks would only catch what the other hawks would have eaten if they too had gone hunting. So no different in the numbers of consumed food there.