[Taxacom] when is a common species critically endangered?

[Stephen Thorpe]

That is an incredibly naive question!! :)
Semantically, it makes no sense! The humans vs. nature distinction is just that, a distinction between humans and nature (artificial vs. natural, etc.) So it is a semantic nonsense to claim that humans are part of nature! What you really mean, though, is something different, more like "humans and nature are together parts of a unified system" (which we don't really have a good name for, except perhaps "reality"), or something like "humans and nature are intimately mutually dependent", but I think we all know that already from natural disasters and the like ...
 
Stephen


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From: Mark Wilden <mark at mwilden.com>
To: TAXACOM <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> 
Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2012 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] when is a common species critically endangered?

This is no doubt an incredibly naive question, but how long will it
take before humans and their artifacts are considered part of
"nature"?

///ark

Mark Wilden
Web Applications Developer
California Academy of Sciences

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