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July 31, 2006
A new category
A good friend of mine once responded to my fretting about the fate of the earth by observing that the earth will survive. We might not. I've opened a new category, which I'll call 'Nature Wins'.
Here is an interesting link that might give us pause: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-latimesoceans1073006,0,478398.story
You know how an untended bit of paving will gradually give way to vegetation? Or how about the Mayan temples, gradually yielding to nature's forces (a few hundred years, or even a few thousand years, is not very long in earth terms)
We will probably be safe in claiming the title for the dumbest species to face extinction. We understand what we're doing, but we can't seem to control ourselves.
Maybe a 12-step process...
Then again, maybe there's an up side to this: we mine the methane and hydrogen sulfide and burn it to produce electric power.
Posted by aquacura.com at July 31, 2006 03:08 PM