In Reply to: Sound pollution posted by Jaroslav Kovaricek on September 03, 1996 at 05:20:44:
Jaroslav: you've got a fair point. Humans are able to object
to noise pollution, though - compare this to the other 30
million species ( a conservative estimate ) who are voiceless,
unable to protest within human society against the wholesale
destruction of their ecosystems. This destruction is actively
engaged in by McD's in Costa Rica, say, and implicitly by
their embodiment of meat-eating as desirable.Currently on planet earth one species - yep, you guessed -
is abstracting 40% of the planet's photosynthetic capacity
for its own needs, or rather 'wants'. This will increase,
within lifetimes of kids born today, to 80%. This is not
to speak of the resources fed to food animals which could
be going to feed the hundreds of thousands of people who
starve every year.If one of the reasons we are unwisely interfering with
the integrity and ecology of the planet
( cows = methane = global warming, amongst other sources )
is to satisfy a diet of flesh and dairy foods for rich
people, it makes sense to attack this as a priority.Arguments between us humans about how we should organise
our society will always go on. But without the rest of
creation to provide a context for who we are, without
compassion for the suffering of the millions who die
every day when they don't need to, any notion of
'progress' is meaningless. walk in balance.
None.