| Bowerbirds – In Our Talons Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| After seeing a video (and hearing the better part of their third album) about Phil and Beth building a cabin in the woods with their own four hands, I would be inclined to think Meudwen's interpretation nailed it.. Your idea that there's nothing unnatural about humans destroying "this wondrous earth" is a fun thought, but you miss a critical difference between humans and other organisms, which is that humans are perhaps the only ones capable of projecting current conditions forward and predicting outcomes. A bird of prey probably wouldn't understand if it was eating its prey at a rate that would cause it's kind to run out of food in a few generations. Humans are the only "cousin" that has that ability, and so it's reasonable to hold them to a higher standard. With large-scale alteration of the earth in our headlights, we make only the most half-hearted attempts to change direction. We'll clear-cut South America, but at least there's no CFCs in my SUV's air conditioning! | |
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