Your approach to the role of humans in world history seems to put you among the anti-humanists, people who think humans should be wiped off the face of the earth.

I am not an “anti-humanist,” because, as I keep insisting and insisting and insisting and shouting and shouting and shouting (apparently to the deaf), it is not HUMANS who have brought us to this pass. Rather it is a single culture of humanity.

Humanity itself lived on this planet for three million years as harmlessly as rattlesnakes or sharks or butterflies—and is capable of doing so again.

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Posted: 08 Feb 1997