by MonteQuest » Mon 04 Sep 2006, 01:44:40
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', ' ')No miracle cure yet, but definitely a major breakthrough.
And then to see some people hating science and technology; some even want to get rid of it all and return to some pre-modern state of wilderness.... tssss.
Technology and science are the only way out for us, out of cancer, out of climate change and out of peak oil.
More circumvention of nature. Eliminate our remaining predators and accelerate the overshoot.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Montequest', 'D')isease can be looked upon as man’s keystone predator. “Keystone predator” is an ecological term used to describe the basic principle by which a predator may be a balancing force on an ecosystem. For this reason, special care must be taken with identified keystone predators to keep them from being hunted out of an ecosystem. Other than in some vials in a lab at the CDC, many of man’s keystone predators are extinct; others are of little consequence. Yes, we are no longer plagued with the evils of disease, but that was nature’s way of controlling our numbers and insuring the “survival of the fittest.” Predators usually capture the old, crippled, sick, or very young animals. Over long periods of time, predation actually improves the health of the prey population.