Population Growth "Alarmism" as a Deep Political Control Device

[Greg Burnham]

I couldn't disagree with you more. We are of this planet. We are therefore NATURAL to it and everything we do is natural. However, not everything we do is to our own benefit nor is it always to the benefit of other species. But, we cannot destroy nature--that is absurd. We are subservient to nature and to the planet, not the other way around.

But we can destroy nature. We have the power to destroy the environment for almost every creature on the planet, including us. In fact, we may even have the power to blow the whole planet to smithereens. That's my point. Why do we have this power? All other life forms play a constructive role in sustaining the planet, but we don't. Our role appears to be destructive.

How do termites, for instance, help to sustain the planet, Mark? Roaches? I could go on, but you get the point.

You say "We are of this planet. We are therefore NATURAL to it and everything we do is natural". I disagree. It doesn't necessarily follow.

How do you figure, that: "it doesn't follow..." -- Unless you are willing to toss out the idea of evolution completely, then we are natural to the planet.

Nature never grants one species the intelligence to destroy all other species. Nature has given all other species the intelligence to survive within their own environment, nothing more.

Why has nature given us alone the intelligence to do this?

It doesn't seem natural to me.

If we venture away from this planet without bringing enough of it (food, water, air) with us, we perish very quickly. Without air alone from this planet we will be dead within minutes; without water from this planet we'll be dead in days or weeks; without food, dead in weeks or months...at the most.

That would rather seem a very good example of our dependence upon this planet, our subservience to it, and its ability to destroy us in short order.