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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Skeptiod and GM foods
  • Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:01:17 -0600



Someone wrote that the human species may be an evolutionary dead end.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 9/14/2008 at 12:43 PM Dan Conine wrote:

>I always wonder about the "moral and spiritual" motivations of people
>who use those same arguments to SAY they want to feed the world, but
>really what they want is to make the world buy THEIR food. There is
>never a real moral discussion about how large a number of people is
>truly moral in the concept of caring for the world (we can only care for
>those we know--search "monkeysphere"), nor is there a question about (as
>the ancient Greeks discovered) the fact that any civilization is an
>individual-based compromise between the natural world and the
>city-state. Our present world human situation is one where the natural
>is something completely separate from the human, and something to be
>'encompassed' by humans as though we have the ability or the carefulness
>to turn the natural world into a subset of human wants.
>"All Human, All the Time" is the mindset, but it is an egotistical and
>immoral one to believe we always have the right to live. Nature only
>grants us the right to Try. So far, we have done nothing but try to find
>some way around that temporary gift.
>
>The coming collapse of our System of systems is inevitable at this
>point. The best we can do is expect it and live our lives in a
>descending fashion. Those who don't accept the coming descent will crash
>into the walls that they themselves have created, such as only living
>through someone else's money, purchasing every resource they need, and
>expecting Someone Else to Do Something.
>
>Dan C.
>Belgium,WI
>






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