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Re: The Limits To Growth



In article <59hmva$hh1@news.inforamp.net>,
   sync@inforamp.net (J McGinnis) wrote:
>briand@net-link.net (Brian Carnell) wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>Yes, the environment restricts the species. To 'threaten' an
>environment is to alter it in a way that threatens the species within
>it. It may be natural for lab rats, but we're supposed to be smarter
>than that aren't we? That's what environmentalism is; the scientific
>practice of managing our environment for our benefit in a responsible,
>sustainable and proactive manner.

You are addressing the points about environmentalism that I find 
objectionable.  Who's benefit are you worried about?  What do you define as 
responsible?  What do you define as sustainable?  What do you define as 
proactive?  How do you intend to deal with people who do not have the same 
definitions as yourself?



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