Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
by carapace on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:53PM
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I agree with you. In re: Fermi's paradox, I have a speculation:
All exponential growth curves in the real world are S-shaped, they always level-off. An intelligent species can choose when and how this leveling-off occurs for themselves, but not whether. I think that since we have not yet made this choice, we are not yet considered intelligent by the citizens of the galaxy, and so the Fermi Paradox: we are in quarantine.
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Unrelated, there is a school of applied ecology called Permaculture. Toby Hemenway (RIP) has a talk he gave about how we might transition to a steady-state civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b7zJ-hx_c I haven't watched this one yet, but it's 'the sequel to Toby's popular talk, "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and The Planet, but not Civilization."', which I have watched and found very inspiring.
All exponential growth curves in the real world are S-shaped, they always level-off. An intelligent species can choose when and how this leveling-off occurs for themselves, but not whether. I think that since we have not yet made this choice, we are not yet considered intelligent by the citizens of the galaxy, and so the Fermi Paradox: we are in quarantine.
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Unrelated, there is a school of applied ecology called Permaculture. Toby Hemenway (RIP) has a talk he gave about how we might transition to a steady-state civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b7zJ-hx_c I haven't watched this one yet, but it's 'the sequel to Toby's popular talk, "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and The Planet, but not Civilization."', which I have watched and found very inspiring.