On 12/3/2017 5:11 PM, 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.
How do you figure that. It's the species eating the plastic that are
killed. The species that produced lead shot made passenger pigeons
extinct, not themselves.
Brent
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