FWD: Extinction and education (Re: Traffic...)

[Anne Kilmer]

Chuck Vaughn wrote:
> 
> I'm usually a lurker on this list but this one was just too much.
> 
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> This is a completely ridiculous statement. Humans are unnatural. Everything
> humans do is unnatural. Wrong! Unless we were dropped off from a spaceship
> we are as natural as any other creature that evolved here. Only our
> morality places the labels of right or wrong on things we do. We may take
> a lot of species with us in the process of making our species extinct but
> you can't call it unnatural.
> 
> Chuck Vaughn <aa6g at aa6g.org>

I wonder which ten biologists they asked. Sometimes we get carried away
with a sense of our own importance, don't we. 

Still, a 26 mile oil slick ... we do seem to be making a mess. 
If we don't take better care of our host here, we'll never get
off-planet again. And I've got to quit reading the New York Times.
Spoils my Sunday.  
Heavy rain here all day, and not a butterfly in sight. 
Anne Kilmer
South Florida