Date: Fri, 20 Feb 98 6:51:29 EST From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-TH: Marine biodiversity and soil fertility C. Heartfield, I agree that scarcity is currently man-made. However, you extend your argument too far with the attack on bio-diversity. Nature is cruel and never crueler than when she leads a species into extinction. Man is even crueler and when he does. The DNA of a species reflects a billion years of evolution. Would you chop down a tree that was a billion years old if you could help it? That DNA is unique and tells a unique story. Once it's gone, it's gone, and man can never create it. The answer to some of life's most vexing riddles could have been in the DNA of that disappeared auk. Similar answers are burning up now with the organisms that are going up in rain-forest smoke. Man does not create life (so far) he only manipulates the stuff life is made of. No amount of labor can bring back the product of a billion years of evolution. peace --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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