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Re: fHuman vs. natural influences on the environment



charliew@hal-pc.org (charliew) wrote:

>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.

True.  Nature also usually works on somewhat longer time scales.
Your thesis that we can't do anything to harm the environment,
because it's always changing anyway, keeps overlooking the rate
of the change that we are inducing.

Incidentally, I made an error on my earlier post about methane
--the scale was off.  It should have been 300-650 ppb, not ppm,
over the past 150,000 years, and around 1700 ppb today.  The
point about statistical significance still holds.

Tom Gray
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