From: Pinochet@yabbs
To: balistic@yabbs
Subject: re: don't cry for the ecosystem
Date: Tue Aug 16 11:49:07 1994

They don't understand, Balistic.  We look at it from nature's point of 
view.  Just think of the possibilities man has created for the awesome 
evolutionary powers of nature.  Man is part of the ecosystem now.  There 
is no changing that.  And because we cause entropy, we are releasing the 
creativity of species everywhere.  Those who don't adapt, die.  Very 
simple.  Very clean cut.  Those who do, prosper.  Species after species 
died when something new enterred their ecosystem (when a monitor lizard 
floated across a sea on a log after a storm.  it lands and finds a specie 
of parrot that had evolved with no natural enemies and lost its capacity 
of flight.  a couple of years later...no more parrot).  Man is the 
ultimate product of nature.  It harnesses its surrounding and changes them 
to his betterment.  It modifies...it cajoles...it helps the winners win 
and the losers lose.  

Read Ian Malcolm in the novel _Jurrasic Park_.  His is the best 
explanation of the power of nature I have seen.  Nature is not a harmless, 
treed bear club.  It is nasty and brutish and we are part of it.