From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 10:59:33 MDT
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:20:57AM -0400, gts wrote:
> Thanks, I think I understand now what you and Diamond mean. Correct me if
> I'm wrong but I think you mean that humans have a large and often
> destructive *impact on their environments*, but that at least with respect
> to hunting this impact is not really evidence of a "destructive nature," per
> se, where "destructive nature" is roughly synonymous with "deliberately
> vandalistic nature."
See, for me "destructive nature" is roughly synonymous with "tends to destroy
things", not with "deliberately vandalistic". And naive exploitation of the
environment is destructive, as reflected by the extinct species, and the many
civilizations which have damaged their own environment, which I thought
Diamond was going to write about in another book by now. Deliberately
destroyed? No. But destroyed just the same.
-xx- Damien X-)
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