re: #157 cliffster

Agreeing to disagree is the best I can get from my shallow ability to explain things, then. We don’t rule the planet. I think the attitude that we do is damaging to ourselves. I can’t say it any better.

How is it damaging? Is it damaging to think we might be making our world less hospitable and wanting to change our actions that are doing that?

If you wake up each morning, get up, stretch, have a glass of water and then smack yourself in the face with a wood plank is it arrogant to one day decide to skip the plank?

We are doing things which are hurting us. The damage today may be minor but the accumulation of that damage over time is severe. We can stop doing some of these things. Why is it arrogant?

We learned that drinking water filled with sewage makes you sick with cholera so we invented sanitation systems so we wouldn’t pollute our fresh water. We discovered that lead will poison you so we stopped using it in our dishes as a glaze and on the walls of our homes. We learned that deforestation can lead to landslides so we became smarter about where & how to log. Why should we not think about how we put carbon into the air? Why is it “ruling the planet” or “being over nature” to change our own behavior?