Ruphus -> RE: Happy New Year! (Jan. 3 2012 6:13:19)
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Ya Richard, It´s been a pleasure to read your post with all the very intelligent observation in there! There are two points however that appear questionable to me. The one and minor one is about damages through pigs. It is very true that an imbalance of species will be detrimental to an ecological system; and you are right that unfortunately predators are missing to keep the pigs in healthy numbers ( and in genetic shape ). Yet, it seems worth mentioning that damages through pigs don´t compare to fundamental and lasting damages through thoughtless humans. After all the pigs stirring is being said to having the advantage of loosening up soil and in the end enriching floras diversity in the forest. The other, major one is the question whether education could change something on human ignorance. As times of anthropologically needed ignorance are over, I think that a corresponding culture should certainly be helping the case. Related upbringing should enable awareness of how we are a part of the whole / needing fellow species for to be human in the first place. ( The missing of which being what disturbs me the most of all.) Next, it should be unquestionable how culture determines empathical abilities. ( Potentially making people at the least reduce meat consumption, whichs overly production has evolved into a considerable part of environmental destruction. - If not making people request decent breeding conditions / better even pushing forward artificial meat production, and even animal rights.) And finally, it shouldn´t take too much of common knowledge to make people understand that new species ( after extinction ) won´t be popping up soon afterwards anyway, like mushrooms would after a rain season. ( Another misconception I increasingly note.) - What gives me desperate feelings is the impression that the vast majority of menkind does not remotely realize what it means, when the crown of evolution like the big five and others disappear for good. I think to see them watching all this extinction without any consideration and emotional response. As if they were observing something ordinary like leaves falling in autumn. ( Like `So what, things be back to order next spring.´) All this intellectual frigidity has to do with ways of thinking, which again are a matter of education. There are clear and bold impulses missing at home, in school, and before all in major media. The main place-makers there still being secondaries like economical hardship / worries / unemployment, lousy music, VIPS personal schedules, latest gadgets etc., which may all have their place; but currently headlines everywhere should be about primary vital issues. Just a minimum of rational correspondence, that is not given. People follow what is hip. You give them Lady gaga all day long and that is what they will be busy with. You alternatively give them consideration about a fading environment and they will find it en vogue to pursue that. Where I am now 99% of the kids grow up without any whatsoever experience with animals. Does it wonder that individuals grown up that way have near zero empathical abilities, not to mention any environmental concerns? We are complete cultural animals, which again indicates to what degree education matters for us. quote:
ORIGINAL: Deniz Throughout history, capitalism has always exploited different kinds of resourcess, and often overexploited so that only wars could help meeting the demand. This doesnt even have to be bad intentions, its just inherent to how our economy works. Which again is bad intention. The votiv of accumulating sumptuous wealth, regardless. BTW, media. Imagine what would be if the media would continously release scientifically based articles about the psychosis and insatiable inferiourity complex that causes boundless appropriation. New trends can be set. Only not, as long as the media are being owned by the insatiable themselves; naturally. Ruphus PS: Friends, try to stay away from Mitsubishi products. This is one of the most devastating combines, who even aims at environmental destruction, because of price gauging for stockpiled products. They used to be No.1 in lumbering primary forests, until the Chinese keeled over. Now they are No.1 in emptying the oceans. And as over 90% of fishable contents have been emptied already, they are riggidly skimming of the southern polar sea, despite international prohibition. The approaching exctinction of the blue-fin tuna fish in fact meets their obviously intended business plans, as they have hoarded at - 60°C tenth of thousands of tons of this fish ( which long since now costs hundreds of bucks per kilo in Japan and China ), which will result in another racketeering dorado for them, after the tuna - thanks to their own efforts- will not be tracable anymore. Some combines do not just destroy environment as collateral damage for to keep autrageous margins going at max. Som actually destroy intentionally, following sick future business concepts. Mitsubishi belongs to that kind. I guess with the self-pathed cockaigne that they live in, they could care less about, whether you buy their cars and TVs or not. But you will at least not be actively kicking your kids´ and grandson´s fate, if you abstain from buying Mitsubishi ware.
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