Demut: What about the mindset? Take the Aboriginal people of Australia. They have respect for nature and think that even trees and rocks should remain as untouched as possible. Where do we find that kind of thinking in contemporary major societies? In some social eco-movement niche at best.
Actually Aboriginals have been in Australia for just shy of 50,000 years and they may have caused mass extinctions when they arrived there too though it is in dispute over exactly when or why those extinctions happened. So while now everything looks to be in equilibrium, but it almost certainly wasn't when they first got there and expanded.
Eventually our own peoples will reach some equilibrium and you do see some evidence of prominence for respect the Earth coming into the social consciousness - perhaps often not a lot from the conservative political spectrum though even there it is not absent. In fact "being green" has become quite a selling point these days. I would say that Environmentalism as a whole is no longer a fringe movement and is quite mainstream.
crazy_dave: I think this is a bit of a misunderstanding - I don't believe he wasn't actually telling you to shut up something that he tried to convey, unsuccessfully, with the smiley faces.
Demut: Are you talking about nondeplumage, GOG grandmaster of trolling (which doesn’t say much)? I don’t see any smiley faces in his post. And what’s with the double negative, hombre?
Oh I thought you were referring to GameRager who is known for ... sometimes forgetting boundaries :). The double negative was just a posting/editing error.
