Dennis R on eco-optimism

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Fri Aug 10 17:08:34 PDT 2001


On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, James Heartfield wrote:


> species under natural selection? You miss out of account the excellent
> species that man has brought into being, like domesticated animals, high
> grain yields etc.

"Man"? Humanity or, better yet, human beings. Men are only 50% of the species.

Human beings haven't created too many new species; mostly, we've refined and altered characteristics of existing species, e.g. breeds of dogs aren't separate species, which is why they can crossbreed.

-- Dennis



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