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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-16-06 11:37 AM
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1. Our species is acting cancerous
Dr. Lovelock probably wouldn't want to state it in those stark, misanthropic terms, but when you really look at the role the human species is playing in relation to the planetary biosphere, the conclusion is inescapable.

What else do you call an otherwise normal part of a body that suddenly determines that it's own unbridled growth is more important than the health and survival of the whole? Other than 'extinct', the only term that comes to mind is 'cancer'.

We need to go into remission.



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