From: John Beckett 

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> > There have been some very interesting articles written about the principle
> > that if you take a complex system (like Earth's weather), that there are
> > billions more ways to have a bad result than there are to have a good
> > result.
>
> If the change is a random change, then yes. But man has made many non-random
> changes to his environment, and now to the genetic structure of some plants.
> Intelligent guidance instead of random chance yeilds different results.

The principle is simply that there are billions of ways to change a complex
but stable system into a mess, but far fewer ways to change it to something
that suits current life.

Humans can build a house and warm it, and stuff like that. I don't know
what other changes to the environment you think we've made that are
intelligently guided.

Certainly if there were 100 of us living in a cave, and there was someone
at the back who insisted on keeping a big smokey fire going all the time
because he thought the flames looked nice, then 99 of us might want to
evict that person.

Maybe global pollution is nearing that effect. Or maybe we have a few more
generations to foul up the planet before we need to change our ways.

John

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