Your optimism, Paul, reminds me of its definition written at the turn
of the last century by the American wit, Ambrose Bierce, in his
"Devil's Dictionary." He wrote: "Optimist, n, A proponent of the
doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, " I wish you to create something that
would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked
something - the mortality of the optimist."
>Bernie, Martyn and others,
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>Getting depressed is not going to help the situation. We can all try to
>make our maximum contribution to the environment and conservation, and tha=
t
>way some things will be saved. However as long as the human population
>keeps growing prospects are dire, and only mass suicide of Homo sapiens
>could revert the earth to nature ... Would be interesting to see what
>happens, as cities are reclaimed by plants etc.. Come back a few million
>years later and watch the adaptive radiation that happened to the Northern
>Cardinals in Hawaii etc.... The descendents of farm animals that survived
>will have evolved into interesting mammals ...
>
>Cheers, Paul
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>At 07:33 30-10-05 -0800, you wrote:
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>>I remember your report when you got back Bernie.
>>I find it very hard at times to cope with the devastation we are doing to
>>this planet from the Arctic Circle to the beautiful tropical forests all =
in
>>the name of greed and nothing else.
>>Oil companies are the worst pillagers that's for sure, we have the
>>technology to find some other way of cleaner more usable fuels but that
>>doesn't line the pockets of the rich does it!!
>>I have been working on a CD for an upcoming book on Birds of the Arctic
>>refuge to be written by David Sibley and Kenn Kaufman, I am wondering too
>>that what I recorded on the refuge will be lost forever. It honestly brea=
ks
>>my heart...
>>Who said good overcomes evil!! I don't see it I'm afraid and this country
>>rams it down your throat everyday with the unnecessary usage of materials=
.
>>What is it, occupy 7% of the planet and use 70% of its resources?
>>
>>It is criminal Bernie...
>>
>>Martyn
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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