I had a look but it wasn't easy reading, and I don't have too much time,
so, do you have precis, preferably a bit clearer than the one you gave
before (with "everything" in "quotes" )?


On 11 February 2014 16:41, Hal Ruhl <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Monday, February 10, 2014 9:57:56 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I still don't think we should be killing off all the species we are, if
>> only for our own sake. I think we benefit from biodiversity, probably even
>> more so than the next species since we have occupied almost every niche on
>> the planet apart from deep sea smokers.
>>
>> I also don't like the suggestion that ecocide is a "natural and
>> unavoidable aspect of life" because that appears to be an attempt at
>> justifying ourselves.
>>
>> I doubt if the species that came through the k-t boundary with some
>> members alive had an easy time of it for the next few million years, and I
>> don't particularly want the same for our children.
>>
>>
> Hi Liz:
>
> The argument I present is based in the laws of physics as we know them in
> our universe and resulting information flows.
>
> The laws of physics make no kind of judgment as to the nature of the
> emotional consequences of actions that result from them other than are the
> resulting emotions a correct result of the physics in play.
>
> My position is that the emotions anti ecocide will never come even close
> to outweighing the emotions pro the process that leads to the ecocide.
>
> However I do make allowance for such a possibility.
>
> See the material I pointed to:  http://arobustfuturehistory.wordpress.com/
>
>
>  Hal Ruhl
>
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