Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019)

Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by gverrilla on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:44AM (#26567855)

There was a very interesting thinker in the 18th who wrote that eventually the Earth would gain a planetary ring. He talked about how everything changes, even though our lifespan is so short we don't see it. And he was particularly speaking about society: afterall, he was a very progressive member of the generation that indeed abolished slavery, even though a lot of people said before: "Slavery's been going on for 80k years, it will never end". I learned a lot from his writings, and I believe our society could learn a lot from them to this day.

The wikipedia article is very poor compared to the depth of his work/thought but here it goes anyway for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier

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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by paulz_ on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:20AM (#26568343)

Any books or writings of his you would reccomend in paticular?

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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by gverrilla on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:10PM (#26571664)

I love almost all his work tbh - actually I've been translating a compilation of some of his writings from spanish to portuguese and I also contributed to his page on portuguese wikipedia :)

You can dive in from wherever, and you will be able to know his cohese and wonderful universe of thought - it really doesn't matter, because it's a single entity, so you can start from his thoughts about family, work, slavery, astronomy, architecture, higiene, urbanism, politics, religion, sex, tolerance, women, commerce, law, philosophy, love, etc

I should warn you to beware of the translation because there are bad ones - he's a guy coming up with words and concepts and always playing with language and meaning, so you gotta be able to read between lines. I wish you a good reading, if you can find them because they seem to be kinda rare, and mind = blown! If you'd like to exchange some ideas about it later, feel free to get in touch!

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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by Raaasmus on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:26AM (#26568431)

My limited understanding says that his prediction is spot on as we seem to be building a planetary ring of space junk.

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