[at-l] ANWR

[rafeb@adelphia.net (rafeb@adelphia.net)]

On 10 Feb 2002 at 15:57, Clark Wright wrote:

> Rafe ended with: "True.  There's no question that nature will survive,
> in some form, regardless of what we humans do.  The question is, 
> will we survive along with it."
> 
> Just to really stir the metaphysical pot - in the long [and I mean
> looonnnnggg] run, given that most "higer order" animals do not survive
> indefinitely, wouldn't it be more "natural" or "close to nature" for us
> homo sapiens to not put up such a fight and just quietly die out when
> our time comes, like just about every other higher order species does
> when the planet's character changes a bit? :)


It's in our nature to defy nature.  We weren't meant to 
fly, to explore space, to travel beneath the oceans -- 
but we do.  A very curious species we are.


rafe b.
aka terrapin