25 Dec 2004 @ 17:37, by swanny
DIVERSITY STANDARDS
I have entitled this article diversity standards but must qualify it somewhat by saying it is somewhat of an overstatement, in that I don't suspect that diversity could really be addressed as a set of standards. No, more so in keeping with its true nature, I suspect that the best method of approach to essential diversity, is to regard that there must always be at least some minumun degree or continuum of diversity in order to ensure the holistic sustainability of any and all planetary life.
This aspect of planetary life was probably first observed and scientifically documented by James Lovelock in his Gaia Theory. I would go further then simply his atomospheric analysis and say that it suggests in addition that this may be a primeval evolutionary planetary strategy though quite complex but towards the existence of the Diverse Web of Life as a whole. Diversity then might exist at some deep point or points or cycle or cycles, as a mean of sorts but which is now fundemenatly esstential and necessary to the planet we now inhabit.
Therefore in conclusion, the gist of this arguement being that diversity is not simply nice or good but that it may indeed be necessary and a need towards keeping life existing at all and as such then it is paramount that some degree or mean or continuum of diversity always be kept in order to ensure the survival, continuance and sustainabilty of any and all life here on the planet Earth.
A.G.Jonas
Dec. 25, 2004
Canada
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