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[[David Gelernter]] wrote:

[[David Gelernter]] wrote:

*Passionate environmentalists reject the proposition that love of nature is ennobling because loving nature is good for human dignity and happiness. They flirt instead with a worldview in which human beings are a species on a par with every other, and nature is to be protected not because you damage other people's happiness when you destroy it wantonly but because nature itself has rights to assert against man. The Smithsonian, for example, posted a label in its Museum of Natural History apologizing for a display in which “humans are treated as more important than other mammals."<ref>http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_4_the_immorality.html</ref>

*Passionate environmentalists reject the proposition that love of nature is ennobling because loving nature is good for human dignity and happiness. They flirt instead with a worldview in which human beings are a species on a par with every other, and nature is to be protected not because you damage other people's happiness when you destroy it wantonly but because nature itself has rights to assert against man. The [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]], for example, posted a label in its Museum of Natural History apologizing for a display in which “humans are treated as more important than other mammals."<ref>http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_4_the_immorality.html</ref>

==Forest fires and "saving" trees==

==Forest fires and "saving" trees==