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To: The New York
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Dear
Editors, I applaud your keenness to defend Darwin's theory of evolution against persistent encroachments by religion ("Anti-Darwin Bill Fails in Utah"), but you too have yet to recognise the theory's most important implication: that with the advent of civilisation just a few thousand years ago, for our species, the natural environment was effectively replaced with an artificial socio-economic environment, on which we now all depend, with which we are almost totally preoccupied, but which (naturally enough, when you think about it) is deeply rooted in our animal nature and fundamentally unsustainable. Earth's Greatest Ape, which is what we are, has built its civilisation on sand, i.e. MONEY (see "Mankind's worst invention"). It is not an easy thing to face up to, but unless we do, and are quick about it, our children will never forgive us. P.S. In response to "Congress's Search for Courage": Members of Congress are struggling for survival and advantage in the socio-economic environment just like the rest of us. We expect, even encourage, people to behave like apes, and of course they do. It's what we are. If we want people to behave like human beings, we need to make some radical changes to the values, attitudes and aspirations which underlie our economy and way of life.
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