permaculture

["Anne Schwarz" <thegrayhat@hotmail.com>]

> Anne Schwarz wrote:
> When we affect less desireable animals, the public's interest in preserving 
> them flounders.  If we found out that deep sea squid were dying from oil 
> exposure, would we care even if it wasn't our fault?

> Ecologists, Zoologists, Marine Biologists, Taxonomists, Evolutionary 
> Biologists,
> most permaculturiats and regenerative, biological (see how deftly I avoided
> using the "O" word) farmers would probably be very concerned

--
> L.F.London


Hello~
Good point.  I would also like to personally thank you and the other people 
who picked up this thread for having good, clean, intelegent responsesto my 
comments, even on disagreeign points.  That being said...

Perhaps my real question was "should we" instead of "would we."  Should we 
be concerned with environmental factors that are truly not our fault (such 
as oil being released from the bottom of the ocean).  The entire human 
populace could be self-sustaining, but this phenomenon would still be 
happening.  A less far-fetched example, perhaps, would concern the ozone 
layer and the ongoing debate about how much/little we have to do with it 
growing and healing large atmospheric holes.  Or global warming for that 
matter, another highly debated topic.

I guess my question is, if the planetary cycles are indeed responsible for 
the damage, are we entitled to go around trying to fix it?  If we should, I 
can't understand being against genetically modified organisms, thus the 
quandry...

Anne
Fighting the good fight for a clean, non-bickering debate....

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