發表意見:生態足印
李思穎(李惡僧) 2004/10/19


李惡僧一直以來，有一個想法。
人類是地球的異種，是地球的癌細胞。
地球上，所有生物，都依照大自然的規律生存，繁殖，競爭，滅亡。唯獨人類，自成?“人類”開始，即從“食物採集者”進化為“食物生?者”的時候，漁獵、畜牧，農耕，以至工業社會的“進化”，人類一步一步的“征服”大自然，一步一步的消滅或奴化其他物種。人類再沒有其他天敵了。人類不斷的不受限制的繁殖。

人類最後的敵人，就是人類自己，以及大自然災害。

由於人類是自己的敵人，於是產生了階級，國家，剝削和戰爭。
而對其母體“地球”，則盡情地剝削，最後，使母體不能修復。在自然界，唯一可以比喻的，是動物身上的癌細胞。只有他們，才會毒害母體共生的“兄弟姊妹”，亦只有他們，才會剝削母體，直至母體滅亡。

李惡僧對環保一直很關心，對可持續發展很支持。但亦很悲觀。現在人類對母體地球的剝削，已經遠遠超過地球的自然的修復能力。一個例子，今天一年消耗的化石燃料 ，是盤紀（公元前4億年）至第三紀
（公元前7千萬年）累積速率的百萬倍。而人類的發展觀，是不斷加快這剝削的速率。惡僧實在想不到“可持續發展”的可能性。

李惡僧 2004/10/19

Human damage to the Earth environment and eco-system did not start at the Industrial Revolution - it started much earlier. It is just on an ever-lasting acceleration, the most significant phase of acceleration being the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath.

Ever since "human being" started to become "human being" ("homo-sapien"), i.e. the begining of Palaeolithic age a million years ago, we started to try to change the natural ecological law. Neo-palaeolithic age, starting at the end of the last ice age ~10,000 years ago, saw the emergence of pasturization and agriculture, and the earth eco-system exploited to an ever-irrecoverable stage - a "River of No Return". The present great deserts in North Africa, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Central Asia had once been rich, fertile agricultural / pasturizural land. It was due to excessive exploiation of these areas by us, human beings, that caused these areas to be deterioated into deserts.

Evil Monk
2004/10/22

This is a subject worthwhile for us to explore, and if possible, to arouse public interest, especially for the younger generation. It is only by recognising our damage to the eco-system - and hence to our future
generations - that we candevise methods to reduce the damage - and with a hope, though really remote and probably cannot be realized, to revert the trend of damage.

Evil Monk
2004/10/24