Two other things.
One, the earth doesn't have problems. We have problems, and other living beings may have problems. Not only, barring some extreme science-fiction or religious scenario, is the earth going to outlast us by quite some time, it's a rock.
Two, to clarify what I said in the previous post, the earth/nature/nonhuman stuff (+ human stuff) is not a harmonious system. It is a system in flux that has periods of relative stability that look harmonious from the standpoint of short human lives.
--- On Tue, 10/14/08, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
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> According to this view we should solve the problems of the
> earth by
> recycling and reducing our consumption.