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Re: The Limits To Growth
In article <32b5d4c3.40782080@nntp.net-link.net>,
Brian Carnell <brian@carnell.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:38:35 EDT, Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>
>wrote:
>
>>After reading some of your posts, I'm beginning to become a little
>>scared. There is no way you can sat that humans can operate an ecosystem
>>better than nature--it's just not true.
>
>Human beings are a product of nature.
>Ergo, the way human beings manage the ecosystem *is* the way nature
>manages the ecosystem.
>
>Your attempt to personify "nature" as some high minded manager is a
>bit silly.
And it is due to our efficient management of the ecosystem that we have
caused one of the largest extinctions in all world history. That is why
carbon dioxide levels have doubled and there's a hole in the ozone layer
over the poles and the rest is thinning (causing the number of causes of
skin cancer to multiply). While humans beings are a product of nature,
their actions are not. Natural actions are generally governed by instict,
not ignorance, greed, or apathy. The facts are, nature has done very well
for the past several hundred million years without man. Since the
industrial age man has adversly affected the environment through
artificial means (unless you want to imply that platics and DDT can occur
in nature without any means of artificial production). Why is this such a
hard concept for you to understand?
**** David Whitt davwhitt@med.unc.edu
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