Thanks, Michael. I guess I'm hooked on suspecting the Pathetic Fallacy for life. Surely we continue to project our own emotions onto Nature, but should we also inflict upon god's creatures an economic treatise? I could make a connection, say, between birds killed in a wind farm (a regular occurrence) or creatures affected by an oil spill, but this just seems to be something the cat dragged in. I think it basically is that saying our lives are a loan from whomever, some of them long-term, others short-term, but that's hardly a fresh idea.
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