dohboi wrote:you seem to have missed the part where he said the very first act everyone should do is to adopt a plant-based diet.
And meat, dairy and egg producers, responding to consumer demand, are responsible for the emission of more greenhouse gases than the entire global transportation sector.
dohboi wrote:So anyway, I'll leave it there for now unless you decide to recover your old reasonable, reflective and respectful self. Chow.
onlooker wrote:Otherwise, wait for starvation and disease. I am out of even suggestions. Just seems that nobody has a true solution.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
dohboi wrote:
If your implication is that peaceful movements have never been able to influence or overturn heavily militarized regimes, well, I can propose many books you could read about many counter examples.
he has also produced incredibly nuanced and thoughtful reflections on war, psychology and power in such award-winning books as " War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" which I think you would find quite interesting (recommended to me by one of my more conservative friends, by the way).
KaiserJeep wrote: If you want to become current, then search out and read about the CRISPR technique. [/url]
And there has never been a better example of the unforeseen benefits of pure research because no one guessed that a technique of such power and universality would emerge from what appeared to be a fascinating but arcane corner of biology.
onlooker wrote:We will persist for a few more human generations but our fate is actually already sealed, by our ape natures, and the certain knowledge that the average human already struggles to survive and therefore will never be making informed choices about what to eat and how to live for the good of the human race and the other species.---I agree, that our fate may be sealed, But NOT for the lack of knowledge or our ape traits, but simply because of the unfortunate adoption of an energy source capable of being so rich energy wise and capable of disrupting the climate system so much. You can thus make the argument that our "intelligence " ultimately betrayed us. Alas, only time will tell if this planet after all this assault, will still remain capable of supporting any of us or other current higher life forms into the more distant future
dohboi wrote: If 'we' have 'pulled the rabbit out of the hat' in the past, it has generally been because we gored someone else's 'rabbit' in the process--think of the many cultures and ecosystems that have been and are being annihilated in the rise of the West and of industrialism.
But with fossil-death-fueled industrialism, we have also been 'goring the rabbit' of future generations, by progressively making the planet less and less habitable.
...core center where elites... [sit by while] ...kudzu apes succumb to human overshoot....
We achieve Onlooker dream of a more compassionate ape
dohboi wrote:...core center where elites... [sit by while] ...kudzu apes succumb to human overshoot....
We achieve Onlooker dream of a more compassionate ape
Ibon wrote:I am not religious but there is profound wisdom in this simple passageGod grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
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