Reply #8: yea, scale is important. [View All]

[ashmanonar]

and if you look around you: we have the sort of numbers usually associated with bacteria in a vial. most species never get as numerous as us. 6 billion people living on a "tiny" ball of dirt that's far too small for us=big problem for the world.

and as to bears and humans: there used to be bears all over in the wooded area that used to be here (where i'm sitting)...there were also wolves and moose and fox and countless animals. where did they all go?

where one bear against one man is a sure thing for the bear, all of us against all bears is a sure thing for us. our tools and intelligence have given us an advantage that is quite frankly uncontrolled. when any stupid asshole of a human (who would have won the darwin award in a natural life) can carry a big gun, and bears have only their wits and their claws...i feel sorry for the animals of the world. older orders of humans were able to live in comparative harmony with the wilderness, if not every specific animal. but now the environment is a "nuisance" that's in the way of "progress". the woodlands are sources of wood for burning and furniture instead of wonder and rest, and lakes are places to run around on boats and pour stuff into bc we're too damn lazy to take care of the lake's beauty. mountains are obstacles to be dynamited. oceans are even bigger obstacles that we need expensive and noisy and polluting vehicles to cross. even this computer i type this on was once oil and metal that was ripped out of the ground at the cost of the environment. i do appreciate the irony, and rue that our world has us living this way. i frankly wouldn't mind living in nature if it meant we had a beautiful world to live in once again.

/ramble