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Old 10-18-2014, 05:20 AM   #28
Marin
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Originally Posted by manyboats View Post
You're talking about whales and deer and eagles. Where's the talk about bugs ... and insects.
I think they're all important and have a role to play. Man in his arrogant ignorance tends to look at other forms of life only in how they might effect him. But there's a lot more going on here than just man.

In fact more I hear, see, and learn about man's effect on just about everything, the more convinced I'm becoming that nature picked the wrong animal to periodically control its population by conducting mass migrations that result in severe cullings of the numbers. Instead of the lemmings running their surplus population to death, I'm thinking it should be us.

And I suspect that at some point, it will be. In some way or the other.
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