Lou Ziegler once said that "Nature has shrugged off countless species in the history of the earth, and she will shrug of Homo sapiens in the same way. When that happens, things can get back to normal."
WT “In the heart of the city I have heard the wild geese crying on the pathways that lie over a vanished forest. Nature has not changed the force that drives them. Man, too, is a different expression of that natural force. He has fought his way from the sea’s depths to Palomar Mountain. He has mastered the plague. Now, in some final Armageddon, he confronts himself.” –Loren Eiseley, The Invisible Pyramid. “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.“ –Henry Beston, The Outermost House. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Cherubini" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Take the Train to ESA Minneapolis On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:49 AM, Mary Anne Carletta wrote: > And, of course, Boeing is always right in its predictions > (not to mention self-serving), so there's no point in > individuals making any effort. Really? The forum recently had a thread discussing the importance of math. Here are some math realities: Airbus forecasts near doubling of freighter fleet http://www.aircargoworld.com/Air-Cargo-News/2012/09/airbus-forecasts-near-doubling-of-freighter-fleet/049393 Gas Guzzling SUVs Popular in China http://news.discovery.com/autos/drive/suvs-popular-china-130422.htm "SUV in India has a large market base, and the demand is growing exponentially with time." http://current-trends-now.com/2011/03/growing-suv-market-in-india/ Ford Taps Russia’s Growing Suv Market http://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/ford-taps-russias-growing-suv-market/ Paul Cherubini El Dorado, Calif. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3162/5780 - Release Date: 04/28/13
