On 15/05/2011 8:27 PM, robert and benita rabello wrote: > Ok. I'll concede that I'm more pessimistic about humanity. We > could argue that you'd remain more "optimistic" in contrast, but that's > really not the point of this discussion. Is our intelligence > responsible for the environmental mess we're in? If the scale of human > activity has pushed us to a breaking point, I don't see that brainpower > necessarily equates to a "lethal mutation." Those who survive whatever > fate awaits us will be those who can adapt most readily, and without > intelligence, it's hard to imagine how that can happen.
Hi Robert; I really agree with you about adaptability being key to survival but totally disagree that intelligence correlates with enhanced adaptability. The most adaptable life forms on the planet are bacteria. They can mutate in hours and learn to live in an environment that was very toxic to their ancestors. The medical mafia are delighted of course that they can barely keep ahead of the survival drive of deadly pathogens. They mutate into antibiotic resistant strains very quickly which allows the pharmaceutical giants the license to unleash more dangerous (and expensive) drugs on us every time you turn around. This of course just undescores the point made by Chip about yeast in a petri dish a few posts back. Joe _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
