XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 14:18:30 -0400, Wilson  wrote:   
      
   >On 7/10/2021 1:39 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 13:15:15 -0400, ansaman  wrote:   
   >>> On 7/10/2021 12:45 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>> What I say is that when humans lived as hunter gatherers with pointy   
   >>>> sticks for weapons and the ability to outlast a deer sometimes, they   
   >>>> were living within natural systems, not destructive to them.  That is   
   >>>> no longer the case.  And I also say that the human brain has not had   
   >>>> time to adapt to civilized life.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It is true that I did not say that very well.  Here is another   
   >>>> attempt.   
   >>>   
   >>> That is more comprehensible, but just remember that long before   
   >>> mankind, other organisms destroyed the natural systems they lived in.   
   >>>   
   >>> During the Archean Eon, all the life on this planet lived   
   >>> anaerobically. There was little free oxygen until the cyanobacteria   
   >>> came along and produced what scientists refer to as the Great Oxidation   
   >>> Event. They filled the atmosphere with oxygen and they live on   
   >>> as the symbiotic chloroplasts within plant cells.   
   >>   
   >> That is not a destruction.  That is an evolution.   
   >   
   >Those anaerobic bacteria would like to have a word with you.  But they   
   >can't because they are all dead!   
      
   So are dinosaurs, but not because they destroyed the ecosystem.   
      
   >(And also because they couldn't talk).   
      
   Noah Sombrero   
      
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