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Re: The Limits To Growth
On 14 Dec 1996 17:28:00 GMT, davwhitt@med.unc.edu (David Whitt) wrote:
>And it is due to our efficient management of the ecosystem that we have
>caused one of the largest extinctions in all world history.
It is not natural for a species to threaten its own environment? Wow!
That's a new one -- so you're denying all the biological research on
the growth of animal populations visa vis the carrying capacity of
their ecosystems?
Mind you, I don't think those are all that reliable, but I didn't
think I'd find many environmentalists agreeing with me.
>While humans beings are a product of nature,
>their actions are not.
Are our actions supernatural then?
>Natural actions are generally governed by instict,
>not ignorance, greed, or apathy.
Rationality then, in your view, is not a product of natural
evolutionary forces? Interesting idea.
> 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?
What exactly does it mean to say the Earth has done "well" for the
past several hundred million years. Seems to me almost everything that
has ever lived on the Earth has died. Not the sort of track record I'd
want to take into a job interview if I was the planet!
Brian Carnell
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