Existing in the natural world

One very powerful argument for the continuing process of evolution is that virtually all living things in an ecosystem are related and interdependent. This is why we have indicator species. This is why we have a food chain. All animals evolve as the environment changes and, with the species around them, put pressure on selecting the forms that follow.

Herein is the rub. Humans are not a part of this network. We break all the rules of ecosystem interrelationships. We can exist with no evolutionary pressures even while completely altering the ecosystem around us, remaining virtually independent, and in many cases ignorant of it.

We can, however, look at cases such as Easter Island in which the humans so altered their environment that they could no longer exist in it. Where are the global limits? Will there be a global collapse of the ecosystem and our place in it? Or will we gradually kill ourselves by altering our climate and thus food production, and polluting our air with ozone and particulates? Or, and this seems relatively unlikely, will we use the intelligence that separated us from the natural ecosystem to realize our limits and our impact, and find a self-regulated course in the global ecosystem that will sustain our place in it?

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I have secured a transcript from the secret deposition of Karl Rove.

DOJ: Were any of the US Attorneys fired for political reasons?

Rove: Absolutely not. They served at the pleasure of the President.

DOJ: I would like to remind you that you are under oath and can be prosecuted for false testimony. Just because you are a lying sack of s&%t does not excuse you for not telling the truth. Now one more time, were any of the...

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I have a question for the GOP and the media whores. Who voted for Rush Limblowhard? Anyone? Did he run for office? Who does he represent? Okay that was like 4 questions.

Answers: No one. Nope. No. No one but you, the party of W Bush.

The right has figured out that the more crap they spew, the more the media and even left-wing bloggers eat it up and regurgitate it. So they get two for one. Feaux News puts Malkin on again and again. CNN shows exerpts from Limblowhard's speech.

In the words of Lou Reed, "I'm sick of you."

Ignore these hate spewing mental midgets! Now!