On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 1:11:41 AM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 6:17:18 PM UTC-6, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 7:42:30 PM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >>> >>> On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 12:55:04 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I can understand how in the darwinian sense, it could makes predators >>>> and prey less successful. But in the sense of humans, who have >>>> technologically escaped most of the darwinian pressures, could this idea >>>> not improve life on earth? >>>> >>> >>> The human species since the time of Australopithecus has worked to >>> remove itself from the Darwinian world. With the development of stone tools >>> and fire our early hominid ancestors took themselves off the menu. In turn >>> they put more on their menu. We have been able to figure out how to untie >>> any environmental constraint upon us and to further generate more positive >>> feed backs. The results have not been an improvement of life on Earth. It >>> has been rather the demolition of life as we replace naturally occurring >>> systems with trash. The idea we are somehow improving things only might >>> operate for ourselves, and frankly it might be argued it is for a subset of >>> humans. In effect we are engineering the sixth mass extinction of life. The >>> picture below illustrates an Albatross that has ingested plastic in the >>> oceans and died. In the end this is the final legacy of Homo sapiens. >>> >>> LC >>> >> >> Lawrence; dire situation to be sure, and we're losing precious time with >> the moron in the WH. Any chance that Darwinian evolution will solve the >> problem by selecting out species that can learn NOT to ingest plastics? AG >> > > Darwinian evolution or extinction will select out the species that > produces the plastic. The plastic will then degrade or become buried. > Curiously plastic and other materials will be buried away in geological > layers for hundreds of millions of years. Life on Earth will be doing just > fine 25 million years from now, in fact up to 500 million years or more. We > will be fossils in sedimentary rock, along with our plastic stuff. >
Why do you categorically deny the possibility of smart albatrosses, turtles, etc. which refuse to eat plastic? AG > > LC > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
