Hi Liz: I am not sure I understand your comment. As to "rate" I posit a positive feedback loop in the life system that forces "natural" ecocide that also makes the rate at which life approaches it accelerate. There is always a chance that an essentially "outside" originating influence could terminate the "natural" extinction process with an "unnatural" one [cometary impact, etc.]. By "natural" here I mean inherent in life itself. "Unnatural" would be external to life. [I suppose that these distinctions may have permeable boundaries.] In any event my point is that my argument supports a "natural" and thus unavoidable extinction event built into life and it is fully effective absent an "unnatural" earlier one. Hal Ruhl On Monday, February 10, 2014 8:33:08 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote:
> It certainly isn't natural at the rate we've been doing it. We're coming > close to a cometary impact. > > > On 11 February 2014 14:02, Hal Ruhl <hal...@alum.syracuse.edu<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> On Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:35:01 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: >> >>> http://www.endecocide.eu/ >>> >>> Hi Liz >>> >> Back on 10/31/2012 I started a thread "Life: Origin, Purpose, and Qualia >> Spectrum" wherein I argue that ecocide [to adopt a term] is a natural and >> unavoidable aspect of life. >> A draft later version [4/18/2013] is at >> >> http://arobustfuturehistory.wordpress.com/ >> >> Hal Ruhl >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
