Yes certainly, we are part of the biosphere and it is part of us. Case in point the recent revaluation and attention for the gut-microbiome in medicin...
Ok, yes sure... but we need both rather soon. Scientific consensus seem to be that it's really hard to get greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere, an...
Nuclear is electricity-production, that would have to replace all other current electricity-production (which is 20% all total energy-use) and also ev...
Nuclear (maybe some renewables) and electrification of everything, is what is needed, as well as a fundamental rethinking of agriculture. Forget scrub...
Ok, maybe I agree that this kind of alarmism as a political strategy isn't all that helpful, in that it potentially alienates those that weren't alrea...
A good while back I read this book that dealt with these questions, a preface to Plato (history of the Greek mind). I thought it quite interesting at ...
I actually made more or less the same point a while back in a discussion with Xtrix in the climate change thread, so I do sort of agree, existential t...
Those numbers are a bit disingenuous SSU. It's not now that matters most or the positive trend up till now (as if that trend is automatically going to...
I'm no economist, but from what i've gathered one of the reasons is that we need growth to offset all the debt we accumulate. Debt is essentially a cl...
Climate change would be our greatest threat if we keep emitting greenhouse gasses at the same pace or even at a reduced pace. I don't think we will, n...
Sure, but that's part of the problem, no? If we wait to do something about climate change until we a have policies that impact everybody equally, we m...
They hardly mention any sacrifices that would have to be made to implement the policies, as that doesn't seem to be the subject of the study. A ban on...
Yes voluntary degrowth isn't going to happen, since politicians that would push that agenda wouldn't stay in power for very long. Case in point, Europ...
My counter would be that as a living being it's weird to prefer death over life, as sustaining its lifeform over time, and propagating it, is essentia...
You ask for a reason to live, but at base this is not a question about 'reason', or abstract arguments that need to be given for life... but more a qu...
Yes one of the functions of a political ideology is also that it appeals to, recruits and ties people to a political party. And since people tend to l...
No doubt :-) On the green movement, I'm critical of it because I think it could be the one political movement with actual solutions to our current pre...
Yes maybe that comment wasn't entirely fair towards France... I just wanted to show Germany screwed up because of their ideological inflexibility and ...
It's funny and ironic too in so many ways, because no other country probably has done so many investments into renewables and such to actually try and...
It's a useful convention, allowing us to apply logic, make inferences, abstract and generalize etc etc... enabling us to built up knowledge. It's impo...
I think they are ssu. This will no doubt be a contentious point, but I'd say the whole recent 'woke' flare is a direct continuation of the Christian t...
You didn't really address the point I was making. We can use our judgement when deciding on how to act, we can be more aware or sensitive to moral iss...
Yeah I think people, or maybe better western philosophy since Socrates, are confused about there being something right regardless of context. I don't ...
I'm not sure you're making a real distinction there, or what that distinction would be exactly? Isn't something that changes due to events, public and...
But traditions do change, which is why ethics change. I'm a bit confused because usually the argument against moral constructivism is something like 1...
I guess this is where the divide in views springs from, for the moral constructivist, the traditions, the mores (customs) actually are the ethics and ...
I think even this is merely a symptom and not the 'cause'. An individual is also mostly a product of the society they grow up in, more than the other ...
I want to say confidence in fiat isn't entirely made out of whole cloth. People come to these conclusion because the times, the socio-economical clima...
Yes inflation is I guess always to some extend about confidence, that is what ultimately keeps increasing the velocity of the inflation-ball. But the ...
Yes tacitly, and even not so tacitly, this is what is generally understood as the maxim of our societies, get ahead by whatever means, whatever the co...
Right, you're asking for systemic change then, because companies are no social organisations but specifically set up to make profit. In the current se...
You're talking about consumer electronics specifically here? Apparently there is already a drop in demand this year, after the "post-covid" surge last...
Yeah substitutability, that works only up to some extend. Batteries without lithium are inferior,maybe we will eventually find something that could re...
Energy crisis, making basically everything more expensive globally as it is at the base of the entire economy. Also certain material shortages left an...
There's no default position how the world ought to be, right, but there's a way the world is right now. And the way the world is, informs what the wor...
The limits to growth fanaticism doesn't come from marxism I'd say, but more from some religious inspired eco-romantic back to nature notion couple may...
It does look a bit suspect, certainly given the history fossil fuels industries have with lobbying. So sure, one can create a credible narrative that ...
I did consider that possibility, and I kinda figured you would bring that up as a possible answer to that question, which is why I added "not exhausti...
I think (here not used to indicate an instance of thinking, but to voice some amount of uncertainty or subjectivity in what I'm about to say) that wha...
It is, like I thought, 'theoretical' though, in that its aim was to only research scientific feasibility. There's still a big gap between showing some...
I will say, even if we assume energy to be nigh unlimited and free of carbon, that doesn't mean we have reached sustainability. Energy and climate cha...
No that's right, I don't expect an answer right here, but those are the type of questions one needs an answer to to be able to settle the debate.... I...
I know there's a lot of heat under the earths crust, just not how easy it is to be turned into usable energy. NASA's estimates are theoretical I presu...
Every country has to come up with a plan to scale down use of fossil fuels and retain energy security at the same time. There's were the agency is at ...
Well yes, assuming financial, human and material resources are finite... we do have to make choices between what kind of things we will prioritize. If...
The question is how does this scale up fast enough to replace fossil fuels before climate spirals out of control? Geothermal is good for what, not eve...
Maybe, then again maybe you are also missing a point if you think you can neatly untangle instrumental and intrinsic valuation in Nietzsche. As the ph...
If we should want to have a charitable look at the argument, maybe we should let the man speak for himself, since he did happen to make this exact arg...
Yes I'd think he did that on purpose. Being a prelude to philosophers of the future and a beginning of re-evaluation et al., it has to be a bit non-sp...
The overman is an ideal, a value, something to strive for... his tentative attempt at re-evaluation of values. He thought western culture and philosop...
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