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Re: fHuman vs. natural influences on the environment
In article <jscanlon-1208961114290001@sp79.linex.com>,
jscanlon@linex.com (Jim Scanlon) wrote:
>In article <4ui4cq$k7n@igc.apc.org>, tomgray
<tomgray@igc.apc.org> adn:
>
>responded to charliew@hal-pc.org (charliew) thusly: (this
is a tiny piece)
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>(charliew) >
>Is this change so fast that man cannot adapt to it?
>
>(Tom Gray)> Almost certainly not.
>
>
>It might be well to keep in mind what adaptation means in
human terms. As
>the XX Century ends, our world has been convulsed by
revolutions and wars
>which have killed---how many---perhaps seventy million
people? What was
>it all about? An adaptation to industrialization ?
>
I am fully aware of what adaptation means. It is even worse
in the "natural world". Only the strong survive. That
doesn't mean that I like this particular way of things.
However, nature certainly has a way of maintaining a certain
"efficiency", especially between predator and prey.
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