homogeny

I was feeling smug.  Our photocopy paper came from plantation farms and not virgin rain forest.  Then someone sat down in front of me and said it is a homogenised environment.  I had never thought of that.
We need farms as far as the eye can see to feed the world, but surely not at the expense of rain forests.  Apart from their aesthetic beauty and their being the earths’ lungs, they are a potentially untapped resource of medicine.
It got me thinking about homogenize.  A meaning of that word is “make uniform or similar.”  We see it everywhere in our society.  So much is made uniform so it can be mass produced.  This is not a bad thing in itself.  It sure is convenient.  I think though we need to be careful of our motivation.  If it is just to make a quick buck regardless of the consequences then it can be wrong.
It reminds me of peoples hunting something to extinction.  They have a family to feed.  The big picture says that resource will run out.  It is why I so admire entrepreneurs’ who employ former hunters to protect the species and habitat of the very creatures they once hunted.  This way families are fed and the resource continues. Everyone wins except the fat cats who grew rich not caring. 
So to me homogeny can be good – as long as we are not exhausting something, and when doing it a different way maintains the resource and those involved in it.
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