Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
by ianai on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:44AM
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It might help if we had literature fleshing out some ideas of how alternatives could work. Ie how we could become a species more in harmony with a large biosphere - ala Jim Henson’s Dark Crystal. Though it’d have to be a human way of life.
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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
by specialist on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:16AM
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> a species more in harmony with a large biosphere
Garden Earth.
The biggest cultural change for attaining "sustainability" is metaphoric, from extraction to management. Maybe somewhat ironically, proponents should go all Old Testament. Stewards of the Earth and so forth.
Many of our prior cultures had at least some form of this. I don't know when or why we stopped being so. Maybe due to the Enlightenment and then Industrialization.
I vividly remember reading René Descartes as a kid and being shocked by his violent language and metaphors. Stuff like "We must wrest Nature's secrets and make her submit to our will" (paraphrasing, from memory).