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Ecologist Barry Commoner Rules of the Natural World: 1) Everything is connected to everything else - if we throw away a toxic chemical, medication, pesticide, fertilizer, etc, it will end up in the soil and the water, and eventually in your food and your body. Just as a baby shares the circulatory system of the mother, there is simply no way to cut ourselves off from the natural world while we exploit it and thrash it as much as we can. 2) Everything must go somewhere - There is no giant black hole where all the billions of tons of garbage we produce can be thrown, never to be seen again (hundreds of millions of coffee paper cups, plastic bottle, Himalaya mountains of plastic packaging, millions of tons of industrial wreckage, hundreds of millions of useless cars, machines, gadgets, computers, etc). 3) Nature knows best - not the man in the white lab coat 4) There is no such thing as a free lunch - cheap food grown with cheap synthetic fertilizer? genetically engineered seed? mountains of plastic? If it's too good to be true, it IS too good to be true. The food may be cheap, but the health care will be costly! The cost to the environment in loss of beautiful wild spaces and loss of precious animals species will be immeasurable. And your cheap food will in part paid by farmers in the form of health problems caused by the chemicals it takes to grow the cheap food you eat, and the animals whose space we are rapaciously destroying. I would add a 5th: 5) You cannot claim to have reverence for God when you destroy his Creation and accept the "wisdom" of those who think they know better than the Creator - "Everything under heaven belongs to me." (Job 41:11)

Favorite saying

• ""And God said, Let there be Light - and there was light.""