1. Jason04/14/2008 04:15:37 AM

I have children so in one sense I'm part of the problem. I have, however, stopped making children. You have though hit the nail on the head. We have as a race been too successful at replication (). My father is one of thirteen siblings and whilst that kind of large family may have been sustainable or necessary once it certainly isn't now.

In keeping with what you are saying more generally I have a feeling that the earth will survive us. And I don't mean we can do what ever we like and the Earth will absorb it. No, I mean that our survival is optional. We may not survive relatively short changes to the environment but the Earth can take as long as it needs (subject to the longevity of the Sun or the Universe whichever is the shorter) to recover from us.

We need, in my view, to disconnect from our very intellectual, selfish, unbalanced way of life and reconnect with Mother Nature before it is too late (for us).

2. Turtle04/14/2008 11:31:05 AM
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I don't even necessarily want to push everybody "back to nature." That whole back-to-the-land thing from the 1960s absolutely wouldn't work if everyone did it... the agrarian economy can't work any more. But a good start would be for most humans to get over the idea that they're special. Yeah, yeah, human media, human politicians and human religions tell them they are, over and over, but really, humans are just another animal and keeping that in perspective would help a lot.