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dmathew1 on January 30, 2007 - 3:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The scale of tragedy is trule immense. The Google Earth graphic on your webpage is distressing. You go good work, Khebab.

Isn't it unfortunate that the Universe's only intelligent primate is destroying what is (essentially) the Universe's only living planet?

The irony is that humankind is destroying ecosystems which have functioned successfully for millions of years on behalf of an economic system which cannot endure for another thousand years. Future generations will inherit a polluted, desolate mess. The money will become worthless, the wealth (and all of its trappings) erode away, and humans will find life hellish and short.

That's the price future generations will pay for this generation's reckless destruction of Nature. Nature will recover, eventually, but humankind will not.

David Mathews
http://www.geocities.com/dmathew1

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markincalgary on January 31, 2007 - 7:55pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Only intelligent primate? One might argue that some of the non-human primates are more intelligent than humans. They aren't destroying the Universe's only living planet.

In my university days, I took a few primatology classes, one involved many days spent watching the (non-human) primate species at the local zoo. This experience imparted me with a great deal of respect for these amazing animals. The experience was actually quite humbling. I couldn't help but feel apologetic for the amount of their habitat we've destroyed.

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dmathew1 on January 31, 2007 - 8:16pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hello Mark,

I agree with you. The other primates are amazing creatures. They put humankind to shame.

I encounter plenty of wild animals every day and am astonished by their fitness compared to humankind. On the hot days, the animals endure the heat without complaint. On the cold days, the animals endure the cold without complaint. The humans cannot endure the climate at all. We hate the heat, we cannot stand the cold, and many humans could not survive without the crutch of climate control.

Humans are unfit and unhappy, stressed and angry, violent and destructive. These are the predominant traits of humankind. I think that the Earth cannot help but become a better place without us. We aren't exactly improving this place.

David Mathews
http://www.geocities.com/dmathew1

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