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Man's Story - Have Children - Save Grain
Another year has passed and a new daughter is born, giving you four children and creating a need to provide more food for your family. Because of the lack of fertilizer your fields are not producing well and the food you have continues to be too little. But you and your family are managing to survive by being inactive for long periods of the day, thus using fewer calories. Your inactivity and lack of enough food require that you be near a fire during the cold months. You live a long way from any wood, for closer resources have been depleted by previous generations that did not replant.
Dried cow dung has become the chief source of fuel in your area, and your children have been out gathering dung which you hope can be split between fuel and fertilizer. Everyone in the house is cold, especially at night.
You and your wife discuss how much of the dung to use for fertilizer, knowing that what you put on the field will deprive the family of needed heat.
If you decide to use all the dung to burn for heat, continue your story here.