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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: save the earth - ridiculous!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.123554.18610@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <1993Jan13.203624.29602@seas.smu.edu> <travt.727166483@marsh> <#!d3jgf@rpi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:35:54 GMT
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- In article <#!d3jgf@rpi.edu> speights@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Arlen Speights) writes:
- }travt@cs.curtin.edu.au (Tony Travers) writes that nature is
- }
- }>a really nasty piece of work (why else have we retreated to our
- }>artificial existance).
- }
- }By "we" you must mean White Industrial Culture.
-
- No, this applies to every people that have had the opportunity to progress
- from first-wave societies. Non-white peoples currently progressing from
- pre-Industial squalor include the Koreans, Hong Kong chinese, Japanese,
- and Singaporeans.
-
- The indigenous inhabitants
- }of this continent had existed in almost perfect interaction with the
- }environment for at least ten thousand years and were quite fond of what
- }White Modernists call a "nasty piece of work."
-
- Then why did they adopt western medicine to lengthen their lives when they
- got the chance? If they were so content, then explain this? Surely you
- don't rely on some simplistic notion of imperialism to serve this purpose,
- do you?
-
- }Living in nature
- }requires little technology--in fact it is most hostile to humans who
- }rely on technology for survival.
-
- Living about 30 years, for the most part, perhaps. Living 70+, definitely
- not.
-
- Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
- starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu
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- "True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
- oneself and others." - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
-