Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party.

We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.

Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.

What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.