George.com wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
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rob don't worry. The Earth has been here for 36,000,000,000 years give or
take a year or two and man has only been here the thickness of a coat of
paint. Nothing, repeat nothing man can do will destroy this earth, spoilt
it
yes, but like all wounds, it will heal.

Come back in 36 thousand million years and there will be no sign of man's
short inhabitance and everything will be OK

:-))
Mike

a point of clarification required to my post Mike. Exactly, the earth will
exist in some way beyond our existence. My angst is us living within its
carrying capacity as opposed to forcing an ecological melt down that all but
sends us back to the stone age, thereby giving the earth time and space to
recover from our stupidity. The issue of us pulling back before we do root
our future existence is the focus of my post.

I'm very sympathetic to your pov and I think that people are becoming
more and more aware of the need to respect the world in which we live
AND its resources. However, I think too, that to all too many such
thinking is a luxury because poverty does not tend to enable grand
gestures. Nor of course, does greed. I don't begin to have any
answers to this but when you have people destroyng rain forest so that
they can have land to farm on or timber to sell and at the other end of
the scale, a country like USA refusing to sign up to the Kyoto treaty,
there's still one helluva struggle going on. Nonetheless, I'm an
optimist and I think people in the 'enlightened' world are beginning to
get there.
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