Faulkner's Spirituality

Reader Contribution by Staff
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We’re not the first species to mess up its habitat. In fact, nearly every successful species has, at some time in its history, exceeded the carrying capacity of its habitat and screwed things up for itself and its neighbor species. Then something triggered a cataclysmic die-off and things returned to a better equilibrium. Nature steps in and fixes things. It’s messy and painful, but effective.

We are, on the other hand, the first living species to examine it’s own impact and to take the first steps toward managing that impact. We want to avoid the options nature presents: starvation, epidemic disease etc. We’re the only species in the universe that has even considered solving this puzzle.

  • Published on May 4, 2007
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