Re: Toward a new US-World dialogue

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun 08 Dec 2002 - 19:47:31 GMT

  • Next message: Scott Chase: "Re: Toward a new US-World dialogue"

    On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 02:14 PM, Scott Chase wrote:

    > Even if humans could achieve the ideal of recognizing and accepting
    > each other as members of a comon species, could humans extend this to
    > recognizing and accepting the importance of other species?

    One 'if' always leads to another. Then again, we might, enlightened or not, evolve not to need any other species. It is a technological possibility, far-fetched, of course, but not without conditional plausibility.

    What, after all, would be the minimum sustaining ecosystem for us?

    - Wade

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