"Since rich people are superior at competing for resources with poor people should we just kill all the poor people?"

doesn't seem as if Paul is interested in responding ericc.

The accurate conclusion you draw about unabated consumption has to be discussed - otherwise we will sleepwalk into even worse conflict than humans experienced last century.

Darwin's survival of the fittest is not about "ruthless" evolution it is about improving on what came before. Supremacy at any cost is eventually self-destructive and completely misunderstands the nature of evolution.

We don't see shark populations swelling beyond "acceptable" levels in the ocean, for example, do we?

Ecosystems depend on diversity and uniquely, man is witness to this and, like a drug addict, oblivious at the same time. Paul needs to understand, ruthlessness should not be confused with 'superior' intelligence. They are not the same thing.

So few people are gardeners in today's world and that is as much a part of the problem as anything else. After centuries of toiling hard and working the earth, getting to know it intimately and understanding the relationships between things, we are losing our knowledge about what is required to sustain life - harmony between all things.

The world will only gain peace when the concerted aim is equality and harmony - and not supremacy.