Re: Deer/people as germs

i guess i think of "ecosystem" as a "point prevalence" thing. it's what it is. it has an unrecoverable history, which is not necessarily a bad thing. and forces within it [there can be no without it] are continually pushing and pulling at it and moving it's definition about.

At 03:33 AM 12/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
Hmmm, Jim, I can feel a long, drawn out philosophical discussion
blooming here...but throwing caution to the winds....depends on what
you regard as vital - ecosystems do balance out if allowed, not
perfectly to be sure, but nothing in nature is actually perfect:-)

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> From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
>
> i tend to think it says something about the notion of "balance." as
far as
> i know, nothing vital has ever been in stasis.
>
>
> >Of course the problem is that the balance is out of wack...that's
the
> >problem with humans vs nature all over the world, but most
> >particularly in the suburban/urban areas.  Well, I'm not even sure
we
> >can limit it to that because farming, by its very nature, is an
> >unnatural activity which causes imbalance in the native ecosystem.
> >Actually, it seems that ALL human activity results in
> >imbalance...hmmm...that says something about us humans, doesn't
it?
>
> jsinger@igc.org
>
>
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