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Skybird · 01-19-22, 07:16 AM

This 6th mass extinction has not yet occured, but is running right now. We live in the midst of it.

There are many species who profoundly change their environment and that way effect its ecology. Ants. Bibers. Some are predatory and have an influence due to annihilating other life forms, others are builders and constructors and form their environment that way.

No other species has brought this trait to such heights, like humans have. From winning sand for making concrete to mass agriculture and monocultural farming, from mining to oil drilling, or metropole building and cretaign tnheir owjhn local micro climate zones and condensing the underground or tunneling it. And these are only local things. If you add their second-line systemic consequences, you cannot get around that humans are the cause for this global mass extinction.

Gen 1, 26-28:

"28 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

The perfect recipe for desaster. Ecospheres cannot survice with such a management doctrine. The bible's call is for hierarchic order - but ecospheres are systemic. Not dominion, but symbiosis is the word we must watch out for.

01-19-22, 07:16 AM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,676 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	This 6th mass extinction has not yet occured, but is running right now. We live in the midst of it. There are many species who profoundly change their environment and that way effect its ecology. Ants. Bibers. Some are predatory and have an influence due to annihilating other life forms, others are builders and constructors and form their environment that way. No other species has brought this trait to such heights, like humans have. From winning sand for making concrete to mass agriculture and monocultural farming, from mining to oil drilling, or metropole building and cretaign tnheir owjhn local micro climate zones and condensing the underground or tunneling it. And these are only local things. If you add their second-line systemic consequences, you cannot get around that humans are the cause for this global mass extinction. Gen 1, 26-28: "28 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” The perfect recipe for desaster. Ecospheres cannot survice with such a management doctrine. The bible's call is for hierarchic order - *but ecospheres are systemic.* Not dominion, but symbiosis is the word we must watch out for. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 01-19-22 at 07:59 AM.