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This black-and-white thinking ignores the spectrum of what constitutes non-toxic. There are those that accept nothing short of perfect purity in air, water and
by JoeAltmaier 6y ago
This black-and-white thinking ignores the spectrum of what constitutes non-toxic. There are those that accept nothing short of perfect purity in air, water and food, a condition which has never existed in a million years of human history. Others are less concerned about humans and more about ecology. Still others value the morals of human-animal relations above issues of nature.
So no, we are not all 'ecologists', not in the same sense anyway. And not to the same degree.
- Craighead 6y agoI'm curious why you would post such a blatant lie about the air quality post industrial revolution by framing the scenario as "million years of human history" Why are you posting in bad faith?
- pasabagi 6y agoThere's as wide a gulf between our enviroment[1] and 'complete purity' as there is between slavery and 'complete freedom'. [1](complete ecosystem collapse, widespread poisoning of populations worldwide, etc)
- Apocryphon 6y agoOne assumes that air and water purity was fairly better pre-Industrial Revolution.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoI'm not so sure. No water systems at all. Lack of covered drains. Firewood for heat in any population center. Tuberculosis and cholera. Unrefrigerated meat.
- Apocryphon 6y agoSure, but on the other hand no large-scale industrial by-products, no islands of plastic in the sea, the mountains of trash were less durable and closer to being biodegradable.