My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

"We think of ourselves as belonging to an order of being that is higher than and separate from the rest of the living community, and if people go on thinking this way, the human race is going to become extinct. One of the worst results of thinking of ourselves as belonging to a higher and separate order of being is that we imagine that as our population grows, the rest of the living community remains the same (because it’s separate from us), whereas in fact, the biomass that we’re adding to the human population comes directly from the rest of the living community. As conservatively estimated, up to 200 species a day are becoming extinct to support our growth--their biomass is either being lost (contributing to the desertification of the world) or is being converted into our food (and ultimately into our biomass). If there are still people here a hundred years from now, they will know that they’re not separate from the rest of the living community (and will be living accordingly)" -- Daniel Quinn --> www.ishmael.com