http://cdn.gv.ca/2009/05/27/hope-from-the-doomsday-people/ Literacy, ecology and the kitchen sink Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:47:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://cdn.gv.ca/2009/05/27/hope-from-the-doomsday-people/comment-page-1/#comment-131963 emma Thu, 28 May 2009 16:16:53 +0000 http://cdn.gv.ca/2009/05/27/hope-from-the-doomsday-people/#comment-131963 thanks for sharing crystle. we have some elderflower cordial waiting for you when you get back... I thought the part of the quote "given human will" was quite funny. Ecosystems learn how to adapt and recover quite well without our messing about! We humans seem to be the root of how things get screwed up. Of course we can make some adaptive measures to change an ecosystem's direction, but the whole "human will" thing seems like we would be taking too much credit for what is really God's genius. My 2 cents. I took an ecosystems course a few years ago and the ideas about systems analysis and recovering ecosystems have really stuck with me. I HOPE we can use some of this thinking/analysis in our ravine. (which is looking really scrappy with new trees, by the way...need to have Jeff over to think up what to do with it...) thanks for sharing crystle. we have some elderflower cordial waiting for you when you get back…
I thought the part of the quote “given human will” was quite funny. Ecosystems learn how to adapt and recover quite well without our messing about! We humans seem to be the root of how things get screwed up. Of course we can make some adaptive measures to change an ecosystem’s direction, but the whole “human will” thing seems like we would be taking too much credit for what is really God’s genius. My 2 cents. I took an ecosystems course a few years ago and the ideas about systems analysis and recovering ecosystems have really stuck with me. I HOPE we can use some of this thinking/analysis in our ravine. (which is looking really scrappy with new trees, by the way…need to have Jeff over to think up what to do with it…)

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