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Originally posted by Nelida
I question the Desert Winds involvement in BORPAC and their concerns over other environmental issues.
First off Rubika is NOT a naturally evolved ecosystem. In fact it is an ecosystem constantly maintained by technology. The lifeforms on Rubika are artificial lifeforms than were placed here with little thought as to balance and a self-sustaining ecology. I find it preposterous that anyone would be concerned over an artificial 'ecology'...if you can even call what we have an ecology...when nearly ANY balance of organisms can be maintained artificially.
Desert Winds; what exactly IS it you're protecting about this so-called ecology?
For example: Why is Nevver's hardwood deforestation, and my replacement with a coffee bean plantation, for Belial Forest any less ecologically 'sound' than what is there currently? Both were artificially put into place afterall.
We live on a terraformed world..and one that is continuing to be terraformed as we speak. No thought was put into a self-regulating ecosystem then and we don't seem to have one now so what is it you're protecting? How does notum mining adversely affect this artificial 'ecology'?
The only valid concern I can see here is that postulated by NLF for ages now; a depletion of notum is potentially dangerous to the survival of the nanomage breed. I must, for sake of balance, point out that this view is NOT shared by all nanomages... *points to her own wife as an example*
Your wife is an example of the "artifical lifeforms" you seem to have so little regard for as well... the only difference being that we human beings don't rely on the ecosystem to the same extent other living beings do, and as such are not threatened yet. This, however, does