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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by metaphorm on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:25PM (#12464289)
it was unthinkable in the original Aristotelean framework. They had no notion of being capable of destroying the environment in the way that we can now.
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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by maratd on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:59PM (#12464594)
I don't think that's true at all. They could have easily over-fished, exhausted the land through improper farming, or cut down all the trees in a particular area. And they had a very good idea that they could do this and screw over future generations.
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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by r-w on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:06PM (#12465169)
I don’t think that model takes ignorance into account. You would be unhappy if you knew you were doing a disservice to future generations, but you might accidentally do something stupid that screws things up for generations to come.
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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by clock_tower on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:41PM (#12466811)
That sounds intuitively plausible; Aristotle's systems in general tended to be bad about modeling human ignorance.
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