What’s so great about the earth? It’s just a rock floating in space, after all. The only really interesting thing about it is that it happens to support life - and the only thing that makes life itself interesting is the consciousness capable of perceiving it.The comments are also well worth plowing through although some get side-tracked by whether DDT was ever really banned or not.
That’s us, you environmental boneheads!
The majesty of the whale, the grace of the leopard, the beauty of the sunset, even the blue of the sky - none of these even exists outside the imagination of man. And it’s that imagination that expresses itself, not just in the concertos of Bach and the plays of Shakespeare, but in our cities and factories and machines and systems of trade - in civilization itself.
Let’s conserve and replenish our natural resources for sure so we can keep building what we build. But it profits us nothing to save the world if we lose the achievements of humanity.
Many times I have wished I had this argument in my arsenal when dealing with well-meaning, intelligent people who have been green-washed into believing that humanity is a pox on the planet. I have always maintained that as much as the rocks and the trees and the birds, we have the right to be here.
Still need some convincing? Listen to some Bach played by Sarah Chang and try to imagine no humanity.
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