Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
Unlike beauty and truth, life depends on death-death is too valuable to squander as mankind does.
Beauty and truth are entirely subjective concepts. Life carries on perfectly well without either of them. Life without death is impossible. To begin with, without death we would all starve.
The death explicit in all of the trophic interactions depicted in the first picture are inherently economical and even parsimonious. In the second picture the death, all of it engineered by humans, is extremely wasteful. Most of it here only served convenience and greed. That death was destructive to everything that it touched. In a balanced ecosystem, death enhances life.
It's all about ethics.
There is no planet B
Beauty and truth are entirely subjective concepts. Life carries on perfectly well without either of them. Life without death is impossible. To begin with, without death we would all starve.The death explicit in all of the trophic interactions depicted in the first picture are inherently economical and even parsimonious. In the second picture the death, all of it engineered by humans, is extremely wasteful. Most of it here only served convenience and greed. That death was destructive to everything that it touched. In a balanced ecosystem, death enhances life.
It's all about ethics.
There is no planet B
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