Is Nature Polluting Itself? A Look at Water Contamination Sources

[Chi Meson]

Well, what we end up with is that, whatever we do it's because we choose to do it. If we want to act to preserve species, it is because we have chosen to take repsonsibility for their survival. This is not the same as "leaving them and their natural habitat alone."

What we end up with is known as stewardship.

I agree with this

No. That is one, scenario. Other natural systems wipe out whole species or ecologies. THAT is natural.

The natural method usually take centuries or millenia or longer. We are so efficient, we can wipe out a species in a few decades. In the long run it is the same, true.

Fix is a completely arbitrary, human-invented concept.
unpleasant results is a completely arbitrary, human-invented concept.

I have seen some amazingly horrible environmental disasters in my travels. I choose to call them unpleasant, and that's an understatement. I choose to not like them. I choose to do what I can to have them "fixed." It's my conceit, my concept if you will, and my choice. More often than not it has been little more than spitting into the wind, hence my current view of "living with our own messes." Nevertheless, I am in favor of maintaining most of our environmental laws. Don't care about right or wrong, it's what I want.

All things that we enjoy or dislike are arbitrary, human-invented concepts, aren't they?

Bottom line: There is no objective Right or Wrong in natural ecosystems, even disasters. The only thing we can do to nature is arrange it the way we like it.

I like my nature wild, but without the black panthers, please.
Right and wrong are of course the ultimate human concepts. Right and wrong is left up to society as a whole to decide. Too bad society as a whole is stupid. But I'm glad we got rid of the panthers. dangerous things.

"very well then, I contradict myself. I am full of multitudes."
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[DaveC426913]

Agreed. We still want to preserve as many species and as many ecologies as possible. It is the right thing to do.

I just wanted to ensure that we not attempting to invoke some misguided "balance of nature" principle to try to justify it.

 

[snuffyluver123]

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