Ed Weick wrote:
>
> Harry, I read your stuff and try very hard to understand your point of view,
> but this item does raise the question of what planet you are living on.
>
> Ed Weick
[snip]
> > "Our oceans are dying." That's nonsense - our oceans are not dying. This
> > nonsense about the fragility of the earth is almost too much to bear. The
> > earth was there before we were and will be there after we are gone - some
> > kind of fragility.
[snip]
> > ******************************
> > Harry Pollard
[snip]
This sounds to me like plausible capitalist-Darwinist thinking:
It is surely true that the earth is not dying (even apart from the
obvious fact that the earth is not a life form). Even after
a global theromnuclear-biological-chemical war, it is
likely that the fittest would survive: grasses and cockroaches.
So long as hwe do not care about the fate of individuals
(e.g., in each case "myself"), we can count on market
forces weeding out the weak "in the long run". My
German is probably wrong, but, as Hegel supposedly
said: Die Weltgeschicht ist die Weltgericht (History is
justice).
Looking ahead but not forward to a Darwinean new year
(featuring Islamic fundamentalist highly adapted life forms)....
\brad mccormick
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