that's an interesting perspective Pavithra, positing man as participant in evolution rather than somehow being outside it all. i think when we make decisions we have to give humans a different status-not of being know it alls either, but of being stewards. I do agree that life has a larger design than we know - witness the many hued sunsets of New jersey thanks to pollution;-)) in fact for me that is what is truly fascinating about nature and life is that resilience and unpredictability. we try our best to thwart, contort and truncate life through our myopic lens but the "system" is so beautifully self-correcting! i still wouldn't like to be responsible for damage by any excess though.
2006/8/4, Pavithra Sankaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Something ate my lines. It should have been "An evolutionary biologist will tell you that the gases we label 'noxious', once filled the atmosphere, and today's benign (?) oceans were rather like the vats of oil awaiting us in Hell."
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Radhika, Y.R.
Project Manager, ICSC
Centering Women in Reconstruction and Governance
International Center for Sustainable Cities
Vancouver, BC
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