Re:Saving Canada's only desert
by dogma1138 on Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:03AM
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Humans are not really subjected to natural selection anymore, we need to really screw up the planet for that to happen and by that time it would be too late.
Nature tends to balance itself out, this is slightly harder to do with humans which have the technology to geoengineer their habitats.
But even if it was so it doesn't matter, no person in their right mind would think it's ok for me to die, and for millions or billions of other people to die just because it's the natural order of things.
And for the most part you can't even hide behind it's a "natural process" because humans are geoengineers we build huge concrete cities, we build dams, we divert rivers, we strip whole mountains and dig the decomposing biomass of our "ancestors" and burn it as fuel.
Re:Saving Canada's only desert
by oneloop on Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:06AM
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Ok, so your argument is to object to my claim that things other than humans can have an impact that leads to loss of lives? I ask this because of your final comment that "bears and trees don't do that".
Nature tends to balance itself out, this is slightly harder to do with humans which have the technology to geoengineer their habitats.
But even if it was so it doesn't matter, no person in their right mind would think it's ok for me to die, and for millions or billions of other people to die just because it's the natural order of things.
And for the most part you can't even hide behind it's a "natural process" because humans are geoengineers we build huge concrete cities, we build dams, we divert rivers, we strip whole mountains and dig the decomposing biomass of our "ancestors" and burn it as fuel.
Bears and trees don't do that.