From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-04-12T13:00:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> I apologise if this offends anyone, but it's my honest opinion and  
> it's not been reached without many years of consideration. If I'm  
> wrong, well big deal - most of us are about most things most of the  
> time.

Waving the banner of "evolution is natural and good" would apply if human 
intervention occurred on evolutionary timescales. Yet gardening is not 
evolutionary either; in an old Thurber fable, the gardener indeed said to the 
weed "tu pass!" That was biodiversity, too!

The remarkable result of the huge experiment we now call "the 20th century" is 
it demonstrated we humans indeed have our hands on the knobs...