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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1013723)	4/28/2017 9:06:06 PM
From: James Seagrove	Read Replies (1) of 1575175

The balance of nature notion was invented by the Greeks. One can't blame the old Greeks they simply did not have the tools or the time to observe nature over millions of years. They would have eventually figured it out. "Similarly in environmental thought, it was widely accepted in 1960 that there is something called 'the balance of nature'. If you just left nature alone it would come into a self maintaining state of balance. Lovely idea with a long pedigree. The Greeks believed it three thousand years ago on the basis of nothing. Just seemed nice. However, by 1990 no scientist believes in the balance of nature anymore. The ecologists have all given it up as simply wrong. Untrue. A fantasy. They speak now of dynamic disequilibrium, of multiple equilibrium states. But they now understand that nature is never in balance. Never has been, never will be. On the contrary, nature is always out of balance ... that means that mankind, which was formerly defined as the great disrupter of the natural order, is nothing of the sort. The whole environment is being constantly disrupted all the time anyway." The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth

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