Subject: Re: Limits, We don't have no stinkin' Limits
I tend to agree. But Mother Nature isn't behind a large number of extinctions. Humans are. And, arguably, human-caused climate change also is stressing some ecosystems.

I did once hear the argument that people are a part of nature, and so an extinctions is "natural". While strictly correct, I still see a difference.

And the irony is that if we disrupt enough ecosystems, we will endanger our own survival because we need those various ecosystems to provide what we need (e.g. oxygen, clean water, etc).