On 24-9-2014 11:12, Saul Luizaga wrote:
everything interacts with everything, is simply obvious, Carl
> Sagan also noticed in his series Cosmos: In order to survive, Earth must
> be seen as a single organism, and an organism in war with itself is
> doomed, or somethings similar, Climate Change another fact proving this,
> so we're connected more than you think we do and most people are as
> shortsighted as you are.
>

Only, Carl Sagan got it wrong. The Earth is not at war with itself. The 
/Earth/ doesn't give a damn about the survival of /humans/ because that 
is what Carl Sagan implies in reality. It does what it has done for 
billions of years: evolve through constantly changing conditions, 
sometimes hot, sometimes cold, sometimes teeming with life, sometimes 
almost barren. If /one/ species (humans) suddenly (geologically 
speaking) make conditions unacceptable for them, that species just dies 
out and Earth goes on with business-as-usual. /That/ is the reality. 
What Carl Sagan said concerns Carl Sagan, and his fellow human beings.

Which does not mean we should do nothing, but we should not attribute 
human 'emotions' to a natural system.

Thomas

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