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onewheelwizzard:
--- Quote from: ledhendrix on 26 Apr 2009, 10:09 ---The idea of terraforming another planet is a human idea not one that earth decided upon
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What makes you say this? Humanity is part of the earth. We're just as much an extension of "Mother Nature" (note the commonly accepted gender of the biosphere) as any tree or fungus or bird or large carnivore. If you made a conscious decision to go running, would you say that your body isn't the one "running" because it was your brain's idea?
I see humanity as an extension of Earth, not something removed from Earth that happens to hang out on top of it.
McTaggart:
Biology isn't my field at all, but the way I understand it is that science already recognises all that. I think the main issue is that in order to actually do anything you have to spin it so it turns a profit. You need more primary research and investigation into identifying and dealing with the problems, which there isn't enough of because it's not really marketable and theres a limited amount of funding that you have to play politics and spit out paper after paper to get. You need more money set aside to enacting the solutions you find, for the good of everyone instead of for the good of your bottom line. The issues in science are roughly all down to economic factors.
ledhendrix:
So me saying I dislike marshmallows is also the Earth's idea? A lot of people like marshmallows, is that also "Mother Nature's" idea? If you are going to apply that sort of logic to one thing then it has to apply to everything.
onewheelwizzard:
Sure, why not? Your personal preferences as an individual ARE in some sense an extension of the planet as a whole, via all the different myriad influences that have come into play along the timeline of your life. Your dislike of marshmallows is neither arbitrary nor isolated. It's the product of literally everything else that has happened up until now, just like everything else that is happening now.
"ledhendrix doesn't like marshmallows" is just as much nature's responsibility as, say, "Neal Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969."
ledhendrix:
Define nature, you could just as easily call the Universe a living entity. Confining your view just to the world after what you've said previously would seem narrow minded on your part. If you read Richard Feynman, one of my favourite people, he says it all comes down to atoms, and that everything that has happened and ever will happen comes down to the tiny interactions that happen between atoms. Why give this effect a name like "Mother Nature" when it's just tiny little bits of matter reacting with each other. People have always tried to give identities to the things that they can't see or understand. Once we have a better understanding of things, through rigorous scientific experiments we don't need to assign arbitrary names to things.
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