How much of it is just dick-measuring and how much of it has any real chance of helping us along is the question here I guess. Sure we probably could ...
Ok I didn't really get that this was your point. I completely agree with you then, ideally finite fossil fuels that are still left, should be rationed...
There's upper physical limits to how much more energy-efficient you can get in the production and distribution of energy. Sure there is still room for...
Climate projections generally seem to assume the economy, and the rising energy needs that invariably come with that, will just keep on growing... int...
We did discuss this before schopenhauer: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/550418 The answer to this question directly follows from wh...
Because it boils down to a basic premise that isn't particularly moved by reason or arguments... either you accept it or you don't. And yes a lot of p...
It's nothing like deontology. Harm is not specific enough a concept for that. Anyway there little use in continuing this discussion, I don't agree wit...
No, because 1. Utilitarian calculus type ethics are crap. It can't be done practically and nobody thinks like that. It's like saying before every stro...
It doesn't make sense and isn't logical though. The conceit is that you think you can put emotions and deep-routed drives aside and look at it dispass...
In the way he uses those terms, yes, because they are defined as being something different. They are different ways of looking at identity i suppose, ...
I'm certainly not prima facie or ideologically against nuclear power,... under stable conditions it does have somewhat of an overblown bad rep because...
While it's true that the risks with nuclear power are not that great if we can assume a stable society and when they are treated with care. But they d...
Those people are immoral yes... More worrying is the trend of climate change itself and the lack of action to stop it: - At 1.3 C rise in temperature ...
I think it never should come as a recommendation from psychologists either, but always only after independent request from the person himself and afte...
Our law does also allow for euthanasia when someone is suffering from unbearable (and incurable?) mental or psychic pain if I remember correctly, afte...
Euthanasia is legal in my country, under very specific circumstance. I generally think that's a good thing. What such a law amounts to is a recognitio...
My intuition, and perhaps this is purely my idiosyncratic view, is that the 'taboo' that the death-positivity movement is seeking to address, is not e...
Property works yes, but it's not the only thing that can get people to care about something, and it need not be on the level of the individual either....
One shouldn't forget that China is relatively late to the industrialization-party. Of course they are worse at dealing with it if you only take a snap...
This may sound a bit unfounded because the numbers aren't there yet... but they are on the rise, they seem to have the confidence and will to get thin...
Well yes absolute emissions matter for climate change, and so everybody will have to reduce its emissions. India and China are crucial just because th...
Comparing absolute emissions and relative rise in emissions isn't really telling us much, China has 3 times the population of the US and was a develop...
Sure there's of course other variables then mere survival to the evolution-equation, like procreation which has given life all kinds of exuberant stuf...
I think human motivations (bodily) are behind the intellectual problems we work out. The process of thinking itself maybe isn't influence by it, but t...
Of course we do not know if this is even a possibility, maybe subjectivity and meaning is inseparably linked with that fragile meat-sack. I mean, what...
Bit of a strange remark, considering on could say it's precisely Socrates and Plato that set philosophy on this path towards to much abstraction, i.e....
I tend to think material circumstances are not the most important thing for us, as long as we can get by. In a lot of ways there's a feeling of genera...
I feel like education can only get you so far... how effective would that be if after the relatively short period of education, you have to participat...
Can't have the state restricting free competition for energy now can we? 19 states apparently have passed such legislation... insane. I do wonder as a...
I have read more about paleontology, pre-history, evolution etc... than you think. You came in here mis-interpreting what I said as some 'human nature...
Expanding on this point, I think it's not only our moral intuitions that fails us at this point, but also our cognition in general. The way we abstrac...
Yes it's not only wrong, it's hopelessly wrong, you just had to get that adjective in there didn't you... just in case it's wasn't abundantly clear ho...
While I agree with all of this, we do find ourselves in a situation we are not especially equipped to deal with, we wouldn't find ourselves in this si...
Aah right, you are generally distrustful of people making an argument about human nature, promoting a defeatist attitude, put me in that box and thoug...
There's some always something arbitrary about where we draw the boundaries around a species or not, and it's not as if we know exactly what subtle evo...
192.000 years is a very precise number.... when human culture evolution really started is a bit in contention I'd say. Either way the point at which w...
I wanna say part of the problem is inherent in human beings... it's evolutions fault that we will destroy us. Like all life on earth we want to surviv...
The problem is capitalists setting societies goals, yes, but democracy let that happen or made that possible even. The idea of democracy rests on the ...
Money, or maybe you could say power/status ultimately, but profit is their way of getting that. They fill the void with whatever stories that make peo...
Dogma comes from somewhere, that used to be predominately the church, and to some extend the state. Now in secularized societies it's corporations, vi...
Capitalism is the cause, agreed, I'm just trying to figure where to go from here. One way or another we will need to change, the question is how, to w...
Yes, we certainly bear a historic and moral responsibility, though there isn't much wiggle room even if we'd cut emissions entirely, if we want to rea...
I'm not talking about luxuries, but about needs. Part of it is indoctrination yes, or just plain advertising I guess. And so I agree with you as far a...
Yes I agree for the most part. Human flourishing, or even simply prosperity, is something else than what we have been sold in capitalism. But so while...
Here's a podcast on the difficulties in communicating the science of climate change to the public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdjLK4Qm86I Basical...
Here's a podcast that deals with some of the issues we have touched on in this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1pIKI72jg It's basically a de...
I don't think profit alone would be enough, as the upside of profit for someone who already has enough money (which are typically the ones to invest),...
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