Thomas_More
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“…many experts believe orangutans could be extinct in the wild in less than 50 years.”
Aerial gunning allows more wolves to be massacred in one hunt, and has enabled the herding of polar bears toward gunmen on the ground.
Wolves are killed to enable humans to slaughter more caribou and elks.
https://support.peta.org/page/2208/action/1?locale=en-US
Young elephant shot repeatedly in head.
Message sent to various party members:
Two members on the forum now making fun of capitalism’s animal holocaust on a thread to do with this onslaught on wildlife, by boasting about their large and meaty Christmas dinners and exchanging recipes.
I had been posting about the mass slaughter of wolves and bear cubs, and the poisoning of orcas, and these SPGB jokers are “‘avin’ a larf” .Nothing new to me, this, from the SPGB.
I know you have no respect for anything that isn’t specifically human.
I doubt you ever saw the COSMOS series, and, if you did, you probably scoffed at it.
Why don’t you read some Sagan? Not just skimming on the net, but an actual book by him? I recommend Cosmos, The Cosmic Connection, Forgotten Ancestors, and The Demon-Haunted World – and also ask how someone you consider a “mere” Romantic was able to work on so many scientific projects.
“My children were born to dream.”
(Chief Joseph).” In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
“Spirit” comes from the Latin word “to breathe.” What we breathe is air, which is certainly matter, however thin. Despite usage to the contrary, there is no necessary implication in the word “spiritual” that we are talking of anything other than matter (including the matter of which the brain is made), or anything outside the realm of science.”
” I’d guess that he was a romantic leftist liberal of some kind – ”
Well, you’ve got Sagan summed up to your satisfaction.
