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 <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wSren5fU7eQ/WiRTPEYdulI/AAAAAAAADJQ/vFyuCb1qersp007sw6kd-8kEQFmRr5KOgCLcBGAs/s1600/Albatross.png> -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
