Dark Green

[Tom Davos]

Dark green

A scientist argues that the natural world isn't benevolent and sustaining:
it's bent on self-destruction

By Drake Bennett January 11, 2009

WHEN WE LOOK at nature, it has become commonplace to see a fastidiously
self-regulating system at work: wildebeest trim the savannah grasses,
lions cull the wildebeest herds, and vultures clean the bones of both.
Forests take in the carbon dioxide we exhale, use it to grow, and replace
it with oxygen. The planet even has a thermostat, the carbon cycle, which
relies on the interplay of volcanoes, rain, sunlight, plants, and plankton
to keep the earth's temperature in a range congenial to life.

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