On 7 April 2014 15:45, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Liz, > > My concern is that almost all of the discussion of "environmental > damage" seems to assume that Humanity is somehow a foreign present in the > environment, as if we are invaders form space. AFAIK, humans are part of > the Earth just as much as rainforests and ants. Why are human activities > focused upon in ways that seem to be completely motivated toward some goal > of control and "management"? > Well that isn't how I see it. I want to protect the environment so that humanity can survive and thrive. For example I'm happy that we killed off all the saber tooth tigers and so on, and I wouldn't be devastated if we killed off all the current animals that are potentially threats to humanity, like Bengal tigers, although I think it would be a damn shame because basically they've lost the evolutionary game (for now at least) and I wouldn't want to be ungenerous in victory. And I wouldn't mind cutting down trees so much if it didn't mean we're likely to choke on our own emissions that much sooner. I am, I hope, a purely pragmatic environmentalist. > I don't like to be treated as a child that needs to be told what to do > and when "for my own good". Why is it that those in the Green movement, > like Chris, seem so bound and determined to do exactly that? At the rate we > are going, it looks like we will be back to a techo-feudalism where a few > elite humans control most of the land and resources and the rest of us will > be allowed to live out our lives according to strict "sustainability" laws. > > We're heading in that direction without any help from the Greens. -- 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/d/optout.
