On Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 1:00:49 AM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 12/4/2017 4:41 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 11:19:49 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 12/4/2017 3:12 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 2:41:39 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 12/4/2017 4:24 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> > Lawrence is taking the long view, that we're destroying our life >>> > support systems with the obvious implication that we will go extinct. >>> > The evidence favors this view IMO. AG >>> >>> Predator/prey cycles don't result in extinction of the predator. >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> If we could communicate with the dead you could take that up with the >> allosaur lineage of dinsaurs that went extinct after the Jurassic. They did >> not die in the big asteroid KT event, but failed to stay on >> the Darwinian game table. >> >> >> No doubt they were out competed. Not because they ate their environment. >> >> Brent >> > > Are you claiming the human specie is not eating its environment to such > extent as to possibly leading to our extinction? AG > > > It's possible we are. But references to dinosaur extinction are not to > the point. Of course homo sapiens will go extinct someday. But if we do > it right we'll be replaced by something smarter and more ethical. > > Brent >
Probably much simpler, not necessarily smarter, and unconcerned with ethics. What Lawrence fears essentially happened on Easter Island according to a documentary I viewed recently. Population crashed and the few survivors has somewhere else to go. If as a specie we destroy our life support systems, we'll have nowhere to go. AG -- 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.
