Reply #162: The concept as you are using it

[nadinbrzezinski]

actually has a place in science. That is not how DP is using it. She\he is using it in a more magical way of thinking.

Reality, and this takes us to a whole different discussion, is that our actions have triggered the 6th grand extinction, and that we may very well be on our way out, with every other high level organism on the planet. Alas that has nothing to do with the economic system, and perhaps more to do with the religious system of the West.

(Takes me back to quite a few discussions on the history of environmentalism in college and a streak in Fundie Christianity... and one particular passage in Genesis that some folks take literally)