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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)
>
>(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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