Thanks for your reply Greg. Bluntly put, it's embarrassing to see the
movement using science one day to lambaste the capitalist running dogs of
Wall Street, and then denying it has any meaning to women the next. I'll
bet some of these Ludite technicolorphobes really change there tune when
they and thier thyrode cancer needs a gentle nuking. Whot?
Betty
>Dear Betty,
>Thank you so much for your excellent reply. If you want to really
>waste some time - in between cruelly savaging your lawn - you could
>wade through some 'ecophilosophy'. Not all is utter codswallop (as we
>say over here) but a lot is; I went to a conference where a speaker
>argued just such a case regarding inanimate objects, and concluded by
>launching a plea on behalf of planets such as Mars and Venus, which
>are in imminent danger of being beaten up by space probes sent by the
>evil empire of NASA.
>Why is there so much 'wishful thinking' about ? I suspect that the
>absence of any contact with actual animals (besides pets) and a
>massive sentimentalisation of nature are joint culprits. The
>indifference of most of nature is incredibly obvious to anyone that
>actually looks, so I presume that no-one is looking ?
>Yours,
>Greg Garrard
