On Apr 4, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Barry Brooks wrote:
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> ...Nature sets limits for us...
As if human animals were "images of God" and not part of the natural world! The only proximate limit for this part of the natural world, this living planet, is its consciousness--whose historical development is currently being blocked by the contradictions of a long-outlived human social order, world capitalism. The "ecological" question is not one of "limits:" it is the question of whether or not the continued evolution of planetary consciousness is compatible with the continued existence of the human race. If not, the planet can do very well without "us," thank you.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos