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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (147004)	5/22/2001 1:08:49 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 769670

CK, Only a fool thinks the Earth is fragile Only a fool is stupid enough to deny that 90% of the earth's fish population is already gone. 20 minutes of nuclear war would kill off most of the life on earth. You are completely deluded. Scumbria

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (147004)	5/22/2001 1:18:32 AM
From: hamsandwich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Earth is strong. However, it can only sustain a certain load before it begins to suffer. Future generations may also look back at this time and recognize the errors of conservative thinking. Who knows. I'm betting one way, you the other. Interestingly enough, the Bush administration (with its "retro" energy policy) is only one bad nuclear reactor accident or waste shipment away from its own demise. Can't wait to see which comes first: the sweltering summers or the nuke accident. regards, ham ps - The average person who cares about the environment is not anti-human. Most folks recognize the interplay between humans and the environment, but simply want to protect PART of the earth and provide some guidelines for the interaction between the two. (For example, there is an open-space levy on the ballot in my city tomorrow. Rs and Ds have been working together to make it work. There are no anti-humans in the crowd. The only opposition are some crazy, regularly incoherent anti-government types. Tomorrow will be a big test for the collaborative, "anti-human" movement.) Do the physician killers of your party speak for you? If not, perhaps you should avoid making sweeping generalizations b/c people may eventually tack a few on you. If the physician murderers do in fact speak for you, you are the "ultimate expression of anti-humanity", as you are willing to justify the killing of another based upon your "value system." Which means you are no different than those you decry.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (147004)	5/22/2001 1:21:51 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I have to agree with you. <<Only a fool thinks the Earth is fragile.>> Up here if you do not wage continuous war on it, the rainforest will occupy your house in a matter of decades. It has a good start in my back yard already. Take for example the Mendenhall Glacier, which 200 years ago resided where my house now stands. All around me the trees are so high I can't see the glacier, except where somebody cut them down to build their house. The trees that are here now are the ones that started after this entire area was converted from wilderness to suburb. One mile away from the glacier trees are respectable. A hundred yards away, bushes. A hundred feet away, lichens and moss. In the ice itself, iceworms and all manner of organisms. In two hundred years there will be a rainforest at the edge of the glacier. (Provided of course that global warming doesn't pull a switcheroo and advance the glacier like it has done a dozen times since the dawn of man.) There is nothing fragile about nature. Nature is unstoppable. The only thing that is fragile is our sensibility.