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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:39:19 -0800
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From: "Francis G. Bartlett" <fgbart@nwrain.com>
Subject: Re: post prelapsarian era
Ever since man decided to "help" nature produce food for him, he has
interferred with a very powerful natural force, similar to the force of
gravity. That force is the one that sustains life in all its myriad forms
on this planet. Man's dogged interference with this force And its balancing
acts of ecology that form the hard rock base continues apace. That base has
allowed man to perform as the history of civilization shows.

Naturalism of late, has been a thorn in the side of most of man's
activities that create concentrAtions which  are an anathema to nature but
not to man. For the last ten thousand years earth has been large enough to
withstand much of mAn's abuses but in the last century artificial works
have begun to show their effects, population, pollution, exhaustion of
resources. Natural conditions survived man's inroads well into the era of
civilizAtion but none of his institutions were able to redirect his thrust
and now the problem has become a huge monster. Reactions to this monster
are not in keeping with its size, the sorcerer's apprentice has a problem.

Francis G. Bartlett