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Re: The Limits To Growth



David Whitt wrote:

> 
> And it is due to our inefficient management of the ecosystem that we have
> caused one of the largest extinctions in all world history.  

I have trouble with the thought that we are "managing" our ecosystem. 
Earth was doing fine on its own before man came along and will do fine
afterwards.  The Earth is so immensely complex that humans cannot manage
it at all.  Remember Mt. Pinatubo?  One volcanic eruption basically
eliminated all the global warming that had occurred for the past 100
years of industrialization.  That is not to say that we arent negatively
affecting the environment, but we are not managing it, and we cannot
ever hope to do so.

Max Jacobs

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