Sunday, October 10, 2010

Philosophy Wire: South Africa Iron Age site threatened

Philosophy Wire: 2010-10-10 South Africa Iron Age site threatened [http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/10/08/world.heritage.mine/index.html]. We must protect our heritage, but we must also "progress". Is progress defined only the way Western civilization wants? On the other hand, the ancient people did not protect their "national parks" - they did not have any. The ancients did not preserve their "heritage". Only now we feel the need to protect our heritage - is it because we have nothing new to be proud of? Finding the golden cut between ecology and human progress is always difficult...

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