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Yes, everything is always changing. Yes, we have changed the environment we live in for a long time. But in the last hundred years the scale of those changes ha
by macrael 16y ago
Yes, everything is always changing. Yes, we have changed the environment we live in for a long time. But in the last hundred years the scale of those changes has increased dramatically. I'm not trying to argue that evolution had brought us to a single stable point, but rather to point out that evolution/natural selection/Nature had maintained a semblance of balance for eons that we only recently have acquired the power to radically disrupt. I agree that we have been changing things as a species for quite some time, but to me there is a big difference between killing all the Dodos on the planet and destroying entire costal ecosystems by releasing millions of gallons of oil into the ocean/breeding a super virus in our hospitals/releasing millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.