Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > it can be said that the human race has been at war with the > environment since the agricultural revolution, > I think it began much earlier, as soon as the hunter-gatherers learned that they could mass-murder their predators, and raised to the top of the food chain.
<off-topic> In one of the Uplift books, the Galactics say that self-uplift is impossible because as soon as a species gains enough brainpower to become pre-sentient, it wages (and wins) a war on the environment, effectively destroying the planet and itself. </off-topic> Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
