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 <[email protected]<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 [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
