Re: Why preserving BioDiversity is Extropian (was re: Environmental Degradat

From: Paul Hughes (organix@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 15 1998 - 13:25:55 MST


>>CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:

>If your claim is that maintaining biodiversity is a good thing, I've
>no disagreement with that. But it's not *necessary* for our
>continued existance as a complex, interesting, populous community.

Again, how can you be so sure that it's not *necessarry*? Are you
willing to risk that opinion on your long term survival? My point is,
it is still too earlier to tell what aspects of this compexity we find
ourselves in, may turn out to provide critical tools/clues to our future
viability as a memetic culture.

Thats why other extropian minded people are taking action with the
BioArchive Project. Please see:

http://www.extropy.com/BioArchive/

Paul Hughes

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