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Really, now. The planet might be lots better off without us, but then all of this cogitation and blather would be meaningless, too, yes? Should we just spread toxic waste so that things will dissolve sooner and the earth can then be on its own. I really don't think that is a fruitful direction for the discussion. -Tc Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Professional Writing Department of English University of Houston-Downtown One Main Street Houston, TX 77002-0001 713.221.8520 / 713.868.3979 "Question Reality" > ---------- > From: Chris Hope[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:36 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: thinking like a mountain . . . not. > > At 08:11 AM 11/9/01 -0500, Jim wrote: > >Hi everyone, > Otherwise, I think > >from a radically non-human, evolutionary perspective, anything we can > >do to hasten the destruction of the environment as WE know it has got > >to be a good thing, in evolutionary and geologic terms . . . which > >really would be radically nonanthropocentric. > > > >Jim T. > > > > Or, perhaps, from a redically non-human, evolutionary perspective, > anything > we can do to hasten the destruction of *humankind* has got to be a good > thing, in evolutionary and geologic terms. This is exactly what a few > radical groups claim to espouse, but I can't see the logical consequences > being palatable to most people on this list. > > Chris (one of the other ones). > > > Chris Hope, Judge Institute of Management Studies, > University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. > Voice: +44 1223 338194. Fax: +44 1223 339701 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] >