Juergen Botz wrote:
> JK Gatto wrote:
>   
>> [...] man will suffer, not the planet.  The planet is self sustaining.  
>> No matter what we do, nature will take care of itself and kick our 
>> butt in the process.  Oliva
>>     
>
> Yes, nature (Gaia) will take care of herself... but on her timescale, 
> not ours.  And on her timescale a tick of the clock is thousands of 
> years, and a million years is but a comfortable days work.
>   

> <snip>

I find the idea irrational that somehow "humans" are not a component of 
"nature" including all the ways we adapt our environment  and that for 
example, when beavers build dams and modify their environment, that's 
natural, but when humans build dams and modify their environment, that 
is somehow  "unnatural."  Refusing to adapt one's environment, that 
truly is unnatural.

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