re: #100 Irenicum

Its the nature of life (not just mankind, either). There are plenty of examples of lifeforms being somewhat maladapted and destroying their environment along with themselves. We just have the fortune (mistfortune) to be aware of it, and a chance to mitigate/fix it rationally.

re: #107 jayzee

dude, good call, I forgot about that! Yeah that was all kinds off awful. Random story: I first became aware of that, and the Gores, by reading Bloom County.