From: Jacques Du Pasquier (jacques@dtext.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 10:37:04 MST
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote (3.4.2002/10:55) :
>
> In a message dated 4/3/02 7:35:20, jacques@dtext.com writes:
>
> >A more modest one, content with life as it is now would be: No. So
> >let's regulate as much as possible and delay the chaos as long as
> >possible. (Fukuyama)
>
> Fukuyama, and most such people, neglect that human nature will
> change anyway. [because biological evolution continues]
Cultural progress is likely to have a huge impact on both our
environment and our nature in the next few decades.
Biological evolution in the sense of the natural selection of genes is
negligible on that time scale. It's barely one or two generations !
And if our nature failed to change significantly through evolution in
the last 10 000 years since we dropped the hunter-gatherer way of
life, leading to the disadaptation that was the object of my post, I
fail to see how evolution will suddenly re-adapt ourselves to our
exponentially changing environment in a few generation.
Unless you imagine that the future will be SO BAD that to even survive
our environment within 50 years we will have to be the bearers of
extremely rare mutations, leading to a very fast transformation of the
species. However, this is a scenario very close to extinction.
Jacques
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