Media frenzies have erupted recently about asteriods hitting the Earth and shark attacks plaguing the East Coast. Is today's frenzy about terrorism any different?
"In the exploitation of natural resources, global trade has been an engine of devastating abuse. By enabling distant populations to consume products from around the world, regional curbs on population growth have been overcome with deleterious effect on both the source region and the users."
"We have broken out of the natural cycle, clumping population in cities which demand long supply lines, whereas nature's supply lines are short. Oak trees mulch themselves while squirrels, bears and deer convert acorns into fertilizer which is deposited pretty near the source. Nature is thermodynamically conservative. We are squanderers."
"We have become more godlike than ever in our individual ability to wreak change and simultaneously more convinced than ever that our actions are meaningless. Could there be a better formula for corruption and abuse?"
"The Department of the Interior is reviewing a request by the Hopi tribe to kill eaglets and red-tailed hawks in Arizona. The Hopi claim that buteo-cide is part of their religious tradition. Coming on the heels of the legal decision which permitted the Makah to resume whale hunting -- a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act -- the Hopi request is alarming."
"Any population with an expanding food supply increases in numbers. So the only practical and humane way to curb human numbers is to limit food production."
"A first-grade girl is dead. She was shot by a classmate who lived in a house with men who trade guns for cocaine. That little girl is a victim of the War On Drugs, just as if she were a Columbian child caught in crossfire or a peasant farm daughter inhaling American defoliant sprays."
"If wells were bottomless, forests unlimited, oceans unbounded and the biosphere deep and wide enough to absorb unending waste, the greed and rapaciousness of meta-colonialists might be tolerable. Unfortunately there are limits. And although our current technological civilization is on a collision course with disaster, I remain hopeful. Massive shifts of consciousness are possible."
