<This is a major point that is missed by most people on both ends of
the political/ideological spectrum.

Everything that is part of today's world is an inevitable result of
the past world.>

are  you denying choices . every second of your life present to you
thousands of possibilities , if i din't move to north america for ex my life
will have been so different ...if i din't chose to eat raw my diet will also
be so different .not tiiling the ground also radically change my
relationship to plants

your reasonning demonstrate what linear thinking can do to us .

some choices have been the source of enormous consequences , cooking is one
, tilling the ground another one . those choices were not written in stone
.at any moment you can choose differently and change the course of history
and by the same way arase the past ,free your self from the outcomes of past
choices .we don't have to be victim of our past .

<Toxic waste is entirely "natural", because homo sapiens are biological
life forms.   Their actions are no less "natural" than those of the
spotted owl or the snail darter.>

in nature there is no waste but material in cycles to be reused or recycled
, shit of one species is food for many others . humans have "created
thousands of new chemicals that nature din't learn to integrate in the
cycles of nutrients .they become toxic for many species .
this use of the word natural seems to me so intellectual , so conceptual and
not rooted in the ecological reality .many life forms are affected big times
by those chemicals who are persistent .


<On the contrary, the way of the natural world is that it does not care
about the individual.    "Life" does not care what happens to
individual life forms, as long as the species thrives.     Variations
that have less survival characteristics "naturally" die off.>

yes and what ? life doesn't care because for life it doesn't matter what
form life takes it is still life forereveras long you don't interfere with
what makes life possible on earth .

<As such, in order to stay healthy, humans need to use their superior
rational skills to investigate what is best for their own individual
health - which may or may not be the same as what is best for others
of their species, by the way.>

rational thoughts are so limiting they filter reality by giving values to
phenomenas and to relationships between things   ..in life 1+1 doesn't equal
2 ,  it is only the choice of a rational mind to makes it that way .

jean-claude