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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D. Long who wrote (809)	4/13/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: pezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

well,D at least we now understand each other.<< But if we're talking the Greenpeace sense, then no I have no interest in saving the Earth, whatever that means.>> It means preserving the unbelievable beauty that is the mosaic of millions of species that make this planet what it is today. Each time we eliminate one of these species we damage this mosaic more than the one piece as piece after piece depend up on one another. <<Thinking that human beings can destroy the Earth is pure hubris, IMHO.>> This mosaic is what we are destroying. Once destroyed It will never be the same . If it is to recover it would take fifty million years. <<The environment has no intrinsic value, >> As you have guessed by now I couldn't disagree more with this statement. Probably I view the environment as religion. This may well be laughed at by most here but believe me I find the idea of organized religion completely ridiculous. What life is and how it has come about, what natural selection has created over billions of years is just mind boggling to me. To destroy this works of God that has taken all this time for the convenience of one species hits me as sacrilegious to say the least. <<The environment has no intrinsic value, but is of value only to those that value, ie human beings. People first in my book. >>You see I find this statement not only silly and unrealistic but unbelievably arrogant. Most humans don't understand that the fact that we are so overly impressed with our own importance is simply do to lack of objectivity. I'm sure if slugs could think they would believe that the importance of their wants and desires superseded that of all others. The ability to think so far has been shown to be only an evolutionary adaptation [admittedly a very successful one] for species survival, [in spite of religious belief ] nothing more. pez