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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by goatlover on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:09AM (#19142575)
> 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 (#19149383)
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.