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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: Who are we kidding?
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Lines: 45
- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:13:13 GMT
- References: <2B0A8245.16232@news.service.uci.edu> <1992Nov19.021352.25696@leela.cs.orst.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.021352.25696@leela.cs.orst.edu> casspa@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Paul Cass) writes:
- >In article <2B0A8245.16232@news.service.uci.edu> cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
- >>
- >>It's finished, people. We're just not going to change in thirty years,
- >>face up to it. We're not the first evolutionary cul-de-sac that's ever
- >>come down the pike. The dice rolled, and we came out, and it just
- >>didn't work out. If we had 150 years or 200, maybe. But we are NOT
- >>GOING TO CHANGE IN TIME. Think about it. Do you honestly think that
- >>today's 10-year olds are going to suddenly have this mass jump in
- >>consciousness despite being reared by today's 40-year olds and rise up
- >>as one and go back to living in thatched-roof houses or at least give up
- >>their Nintendos long enough to find out what's happening?
- >>
- >>We just don't want to admit it because we can't imagine the Earth --
- >>Goddess, whatever -- being around without us, its central and most
- >>important children. Get real. We won't be the first evolutionary dead
- >>end, and we won't be the last. It's time to exit stage left and let
- >>something else have a shot at it. Right now, all I want to do is find
- >>some quiet little island or something to live on so I can avoid as much
- >>of the splat as I can when the shit finally hits the fan.
- >>
- >>Janis
- >>
- >>
- >
- >Janis; You just have to do something about this pollyanna attitude of
- >yours. |B{) Your article sounds like I felt after spending a summer
- >of reading and researching environmental science. It took the better
- >part of a month to regain my equilibrium and to decide that if the
- >biosphere was going to go down the shitter at least I wouldn't flush.
-
- How did you? I'm wondering and getting worried about how *I*'m going
- to. This just really knocked me for a loop and had me off-kilter for
- the whole day; it still does. I hope it doesn't last for a month, but I
- wonder if it's ever going to go away.
-
- >I finally came to the realization that I needed to be active in
- >resisting environmental degradation. Not to save humanity, not even
- >to save the larger animals. All life is the issue and life will
- >rebuild if the basics remain.
-
- Thank you.
-
- Janis
-
-