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Re:Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release by LoSboccacc on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:18AM (#19795613)
> natural selection removes people like you

natural selection pressure the species whole, what survives next is just those that were somehow more adapt to the new environment, it doesn't carry any punitive or karmatic meaning.

it might very well be that psychopaths will be the one surviving the first aftermath by virtue of their selfishness

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Re:Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release by cageface on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:27AM (#19795657)
That's the problem. Generally there are selective pressures against excessively selfish behavior but since climate change is relatively slow and distributed I'm not sure if that will apply in this case.

Maybe in this case selection pressure applies to entire species or planets and is one of the reasons we haven't detected any signs of intelligent life outside the solar system?

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