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Originally posted by sultan:
one of the central ideas of the book is a future society who believes it is their manifest destiny to dominate and control nature. they have a process in place for the re-engineering of planets away from their "natural" state into a more "human-friendly" paved and built up state.
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I call this "here and now," or haven't you paid attention to government agencies like the Forestry Service and how they define their missions for the past 50 years?