Hi Laura, Truth. We think we're the only socially organized animals, so far from the truth. So many cooperative, communal, and colonial birds and mammals that learn from each other culturally, too. Not Charles Darwin, but LSU business professor Leon C. Megginson summarized Darwin in 1963, the year I was born, in the journal Petroleum Management, that "it is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptive to change". (It was even attributed to Darwin embarrassingly inscribed in a sore walkway at the campus of Cal Tech, I believe. ) Yet, Albert Schweitzer said: "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall. He will end by destroying the earth".
I butt typed the above before adding one last quote: "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."- John Muir. We are simply a part of the earth's web. The economy is a subset of the ecology of the world, to quote ecological Robert E. Ricklefs.
Great piece. And so true. Thanks
Hi Laura, Truth. We think we're the only socially organized animals, so far from the truth. So many cooperative, communal, and colonial birds and mammals that learn from each other culturally, too. Not Charles Darwin, but LSU business professor Leon C. Megginson summarized Darwin in 1963, the year I was born, in the journal Petroleum Management, that "it is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptive to change". (It was even attributed to Darwin embarrassingly inscribed in a sore walkway at the campus of Cal Tech, I believe. ) Yet, Albert Schweitzer said: "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall. He will end by destroying the earth".
I butt typed the above before adding one last quote: "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."- John Muir. We are simply a part of the earth's web. The economy is a subset of the ecology of the world, to quote ecological Robert E. Ricklefs.