(July 20, 2011 at 9:46 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Negative with relation to ourselves sure. I wouldn't go so far as to call a crusade to save Gaia. More a dedicated campaign to save ourselves a serious amount of trouble.
Oh, it is pure ego to believe that we could actually destroy the earth. The truth is, the earth will be fine, no matter what we do to it. The human race, however, could be fucked.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell