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From the article's "criticism and response" page : Q:What you're suggesting is parasitism. A:Industrial civilization is parasitic, because it takes more from
by joss82 17y ago
From the article's "criticism and response" page :
Q:What you're suggesting is parasitism.
A:Industrial civilization is parasitic, because it takes more from its environment than it gives back, and if we remove ourselves from roles that feed that behavior, we are anti-parasites.
That does not make sense. If he is parasiting a parasite, he is still a parasite. He's not causing sufficient harm to destroy society, but still he profits from it, by diving into dumpsters.
- normative 17y agoParasitism causes a reduction in fitness to the host, if anything most of these strategies would be better defined as commensal, i.e. beneficial to the fitness of the symbiont but having no positive or negative effect on the host.