What the hell is the "evolution of planetary consciousness"?
--- On Sun, 4/5/09, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> From: Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] All ecological problems are social problems not natural ones?
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 10:15 AM
>
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Barry Brooks wrote:
> >
> > ...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."
> >
> > Herakleitos of Ephesos
>
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