At 3:14 AM -0700 4/23/01, Mike Cole wrote:
>paul and diane-- The whole issue of the origins of human dominance OVERn
>nature rather than development WITHIN nature is especially timely given
>the conflicts over globalization we witnessed again in Quebec City, the
>tensions over trade/hyper capitalism, and the development of chat.
>mike
Mike, I wondered whether "dominance over nature" is not a rhetorical
construction. From a dialectical materialist perspective, we are
always and already nature ourselves, even if some of us think
differently. What people do not realize is that dumping garbage into
a lake north of Toronto, clear-cutting in British Columbia, and
slash/burning in the Amazon are equivalent to cutting off one's own
limbs... ? Don't you think. Some people eat what the French call
"mal-bouffe" (bad food), but when they later suffer allergies or some
other "modern" disease, never link it back to "mal-bouffe" etc...
Michael
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