Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
by smolder on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:30AM
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Things are always getting worse in some way or another, at the same time they get better in other ways. Lowering poverty doesn't change that we're doing irreversible damage to major ecosystems.
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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
by goatlover on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:09AM
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> we're doing irreversible damage to major ecosystems.
A potential rebuttal is to think of ecosystems as dynamics systems made up of species always adapting to changes, instead of something pristinely in balance that we've wrecked.
Then the question becomes whether current changes to ecosystems can continue supporting us as their balance shifts, instead of thinking solely in apocalyptic terms. Life as a whole is more resilient than we give it credit for.
Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
by smolder on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:58PM
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You're right, nothings static and nothings forever.
However we do have a lot of control, as a species.
I think the safest thing to do would be to adapt ourselves willfully to new knowledge.