Re: Extinction and Loss of Habitat

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During three BILLION years of Evolution less advanced & inappropriately specialised kinds were SLOWLY replaced by more advanced kinds.. Except for simpler kinds which could adapt very fast, sudden catastrophes & cataclysms intermittently delayed or set back Evolution.  Over most of Modern Man's three MILLION years he was part of that Evolution in stable dynamic equilibrium with other kinds.     But increasingly over the past two centuries, when he was powered by machines, & the past twenty years when you could argue he used & is manipulated by mind machines, most other kinds on earth have been subject to his mushrooming cataclysms.  Thousands of times more kinds have been made extinct in the past century than in the entire period since Ape Man first walked upright.   Please look at the Red Book of Endangered Species.   You are right in saying that these "could not keep up with the changing world" = the cataclysms of Man.  Few "Higher Forms" of Life could, and far from being "failures of one sort or another" modern wild kinds were the glorious successes of over three BILLION YEARS of Evolution.  Barring total Planet sterilisation, an optimistic scenario is that that Man, a "Higher Form" of Life, psycho-socially & environmentally will be a victim of his own cataclysm alongside other Higher Forms.  And the most adaptable "Lower Life" will take over & Evolution will be restored probably without his inabilities to adapt to them.    If he is not capable of achieving concord for himself within a stable dynamic equilibrium with all other successful kinds, then Man is certainly "a failure of one sort or another". 

 

I was dealing with Man's Posterity after temporarily suspending Evolution of Life on this Planet.

 

(The following immortal words by one of your simple but advanced unspecialised Native peoples who lived in stable dynamic equilibrium with Evolution on the Planet like other Native Peoples - Would you call of them failures?  Your Chief Seattle said - 1842 I think?) "What will happen to the Spirit of Man when all the great Beasts have gone"  We are surely in the midst of knowing the answer now?    

 

Ron Iles.

 

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