On Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 1:00:49 AM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 12/4/2017 4:41 PM, agrays...@gmail.com <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, agrays...@gmail.com 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 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.
