>Wojtek is just demotic
>It is a wicked sleight of hand to identify mankind's utilisation of
>natural processes with the enslavement of human beings. Nature has no
>preferences, nor personhood to suffer from being put to a better (read
>human) use. To say otherwise is mawkish sentimentality whose underlying
>meaning is that one hold's human life cheap.
Besides, who said that razing a forest or wetlands to build a shopping mall is better human use than preserving it in its natural state for the workers so they can "fish in the morning and enjoy poetry in the evening?"
wojtek