On 04 Dec 2017, at 01:17, [email protected] wrote:
On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 7:42:30 PM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 12:55:04 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote:
I can understand how in the darwinian sense, it could makes
predators and prey less successful. But in the sense of humans, who
have technologically escaped most of the darwinian pressures, could
this idea not improve life on earth?
The human species since the time of Australopithecus has worked to
remove itself from the Darwinian world. With the development of
stone tools and fire our early hominid ancestors took themselves off
the menu. In turn they put more on their menu. We have been able to
figure out how to untie any environmental constraint upon us and to
further generate more positive feed backs. The results have not been
an improvement of life on Earth. It has been rather the demolition
of life as we replace naturally occurring systems with trash. The
idea we are somehow improving things only might operate for
ourselves, and frankly it might be argued it is for a subset of
humans. In effect we are engineering the sixth mass extinction of
life. The picture below illustrates an Albatross that has ingested
plastic in the oceans and died. In the end this is the final legacy
of Homo sapiens.
LC
Lawrence; dire situation to be sure, and we're losing precious time
with the moron in the WH. Any chance that Darwinian evolution will
solve the problem by selecting out species that can learn NOT to
ingest plastics? AG
Or learn to come back to Hemp.
Or learn to stop lying and doing "economy" instead.
Programmed obsolescence, for example, is fake economy. It generates
useless works, and fake money. At least partially (obviously nature
has already bet on programmed obsolescence and it has a partial
genuine use, when using unstable components).
Since the prohibition laws, the economy has departed from the needs
reflected by the individuals which have become tools and hostage of
many ways to use money to make more money only: which is close to
insanity (and big profits in short terms by criminal "special
interests").
Democracy is like the Boing 747. The best plane ever ... when not
hijacked by criminal special interests or other pirates.
Free-market is the "fuel" of a democracy, and that exists only
*without* selling-prohibition laws, only selling-regulation laws.
A government can enforce the presence of warnings, and/or the
traceability, and things like that, for some products, but a
government has nothing to say on what be can be sold or not, ... or
you put bandits into power. This is because the only reason to make a
product, for which there is a demand, illegal is unfair (dishonest,
based on lies) competition, going around the anti-monopoly laws, and/
or developing underground economies, black and grey moneys.
A democracy is a living (Turing universal) being. There is provably no
universal vaccine, and it can get sick. But it can be cured and can
survive, also. It can learn and improved.
Health should be separated from politics as much as religion should.
Bruno
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