In the case of human mammals, there is something unique about our place in
the world. We have the "intelligence" to control our environment on a large
scale. Our control of otherwise "natural" systems can throw them out of
balance, or at least, into a new balance. In an extreme case, this
That's an interesting question which I recently discussed during a
presentation of mine at a church.
Of course we are part of the natural system. But we have the ability to
think about what we are doing, know our impact in the future, and thus
make decisions about the well-being of our children o
I'm a grad student who reads the list-serve to look for job opportunities,
but these threads on agroecosystems and climate change bring up a question I
have never really gotten a satisfactory answer to, namely: Are humans to be
considered a part of the natural world? On the one hand, humans are cl
