File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9802, message 439


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




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