It is easy to imagine the greater dinosaur philosophers arguing that life would otherwise be so improbable that the very fact they lived here for so many millions of years meant this neighborhood of space time was somehow particularly dinosaur-friendly, either as if someone was looking out for them or the system was somehow just very serendipitously optimized for dinosaur survival.
In hindsight we know they were wrong. - Tom Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Bob Miller wrote:"clever"? Anthopomorhism again. No such thing exist. It is not "self regulating".Don't be absurd, Bob. The ecosystem would not have survived 4.6 billion years if it weren't self regulating. That it is self-regulating is not even in doubt. The only thing in doubt is to what extent the system can stand abuse.As we eliminate the particulate pollution problem or even level it off we find/will find, it is suggested, that this particle pollution has masked the far more lethal problem of global warming from CO2.It regulates itself. The extra CO2 encourages the growth of plant life. The plant life absorbs the CO2 and cools the planet. Particulate pollution encourages rain clouds to form, which in turn cause rain and clean out the particulates and encourage plant growth. All of this works as a system with feedback controls. The only question is how far you can go before the system goes unstable.It is amazing how you can spin a story that is truly apocalyptic in its account of a world run amok and talk of clever balancing mechanisms.Oh, BS. Bert----------------------------------------------------------------------You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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