From:	D. Baughn [dbaughn@cadence.com]
Sent:	Friday, 10 April, 1998 14:24
To:	blue_planet@MPGN.COM
Subject:	Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Nature's Balance

I hate to quote something from Jurassic Park, but...

"Nature always finds a way"

And, that is quite true.  We humans tend to forget that fact given our propensity 
(and success) with altering/controlling our environment for convenience sake.

When the next wave of antibiotic-resistant Super Plagues wipes out 50-70% of the 
global population, then maybe at least one generation (the survivors) will have a 
healty respect for this simple Natural Law.

And, given the agricultural industry's trend of reducing the genetic diversity of our 
food crops in order to find the perfect yield, it is also quite possible that we will 
become more vulnerable to a blight as depicted in Blue Planet.  It is not that far 
fetched at all.

At 08:05 PM 4/10/98 GMT0BST, Piers Meynell wrote:
>Hello,
>
>>   I read somewhere a book that nature always tries to correct itself. 
>[snip]
>
>     Since this has aready been answered rather well I'll just add 
>that a readable book which conveys some basic ecological 
>concepts well without getting into jargon is 'Why big fierce 
>animals are rare' by Paul Colinvaux. ISBN: 0-14-013565-0. Published 
>in 1990 by Penguin books Ltd. Hope, if you can get a copy in the 
>US, that you find it interesting.
>
>Piers
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From:	Piers Meynell [Meynell@cardiff.ac.uk]
Sent:	Friday, 10 April, 1998 15:05
To:	blue_planet@MPGN.COM
Subject:	Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Nature's Balance

Hello,

>   I read somewhere a book that nature always tries to correct itself. 
[snip]

     Since this has aready been answered rather well I'll just add 
that a readable book which conveys some basic ecological 
concepts well without getting into jargon is 'Why big fierce 
animals are rare' by Paul Colinvaux. ISBN: 0-14-013565-0. Published 
in 1990 by Penguin books Ltd. Hope, if you can get a copy in the 
US, that you find it interesting.

Piers
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|                         | Through early morning fog I see,    |
| Piers Meynell           | Visions of the things to be,        |
| A somewhat singed       | The pains that are withheld for me, |
| Zoology undergraduate,  | I realize and I can see...          |
| Cardiff University, UK. |      'Suicide is Painless'          |
|                         |      (Theme from M*A*S*H*)          |
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