The goal of the Life of the
Land modules is to arrive at some idea of what would be a
good balance of objects, wildlife, people, services, and the
rest between your bioregion and the rest of the world.
Of course you will be a net importer in respect to one
bioregion and net exporter in respect to another
one.
Students should come to some
basic appreciation of the extent to which they and their lives
are largely, on balance, giving or taking from the earth and
the others who live here.