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From
the editor’s desk…
A New Story
--from
Niles Eldredge, Dominion
The
People came from the earth and were linked through the recesses of time
with all other creatures. They were kin of the bacteria, the microscopic
ones, the fungi, the plants, and the other animals. And they were nearest
to the Apes: the orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees.
The People,
though, became self-aware and through time came to devise artifacts
and customs to help them live. In time, they left their ancestral home
and spread throughout the world. Everywhere they went they lived in
and were dependent upon their natural surroundings, which they acknowledged
openly.
Then the
People came to control their own food supply. Everything changed. No
longer at home in the local natural world, the People now lived in inner-directed
settlements. They invented gods and declared dominion over all the natural
world: the rivers and seas, the forests, the plains, the deserts, and
the swamps.
The People
prospered and their knowledge grew. But soon their numbers grew so great
that they saw they had not, after all, truly left the natural world.
They saw a limit to the natural resources, and to the production of
their own food. They came to see that poisons of the waters, soils,
and air threatened them. And they understood that the other creatures--their
kin--were vital to their own survival.
The People
acknowledged their true past and their newfound problems. They decided
to use the very same tool that had brought them along so far: their
cleverness. They saw that all creatures--including the People--face
limitations and depend on the natural world.
The People
decided to curb their population numbers. They determined to curtail
environmental damage and the loss of other species. They decided to
conserve the world's remaining ecosystems. And they embraced sustainable
development, matching economic growth to the carrying capacities of
their surroundings.
The People
lived. And it was very good.
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