Quote Originally Posted by CityBoyGoneCountry
If man is a product of nature, then......
thank-you, i'm glad someone besides me said it. i won't go into the "chosen" part of your statement, but it's nice to see someone including the human race in the "natural world". now i'm no big fan of asphalt or smog, but these are the "natural" products of our fledgling industrial society. while we should lament the extinction of those species unable to adapt to our influences, we should not stifle our own growth for the sake of an albino pygmy lemming or a spotted belching toad.

let's make our mountains of styrofoam ice chests and disposable diapers, let's dam up all the rivers and fill in the lakes used car chassis and semen stained mattresses, let's turn the oceans into open septic tanks and fill every square inch of earth with shopping malls and over-priced condominiums. in short, let's take what we can before someone else gets it first.

after all, what does it matter if we turn this planet into a toxic wasteland? there are plenty of other empty planets just waiting for our none to tender touch.

and in a few million years, long after we aren't even a distant memory, the planet will heal itself. the air will clear, the seas will calm and earth will be ready for the tread of our successors. once you start thinking in terms of geological time you can overlook even our most grievous sins.