Disagreeing with Thoreau

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

I'm not at all convinced of the veracity of this statement by Thoreau. In fact, in Business Ethics, we discuss how without some concern for ethics and morality, a business will tend to not profit--a far cry from the stereotypical "destroy everything!" way that people think businesses operate. It's the same with humans. What is good for nature will generally be good for humans, as I think we are beginning to see, 150 years after Thoreau.

In other news, embroiled in mid-terms...

Chemicals

"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death."  ~Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

Yeah, and that was in 1962. How bad is it today, do you think, when probably the majority of things we eat have been nuked and infiltrated with so many chemicals, "sugar" has 57 ingredients?