Ok maybe that's how it was originally intended, I don't know the history of it, but that doesn't mean that it has to stay that way. Things morph and g...
There seems to be a myriad of reasons why the Japanese economy isn't doing so well: https://www.thebalance.com/japan-s-economy-recession-effect-on-u-s...
Well maybe there aren't that many that have a firm grip on economy, I know I don't... it's no surprise I don't understand it. And I take it that monet...
You print money? ;-) But, sure I get that a top-heavy demographic pyramid would cause problems for systems that were not designed with that in mind, b...
Yeah I'm not sure I get it either. But the basic idea seems to be that countries don't seem to get financed by tax-money, as economists thought, but r...
I don't understand why decrease in economic growth would be a problem if it is caused by population decrease. Doesn't population decrease also imply t...
Yeah, energy-efficiency is getting better and better. And there are enough ways to get around the irregular supply of energy, if you have enough of it...
"The first three months of 2019 (January, February and March) showed good progression, topping all previous monthly data, but in April the plant was s...
I weighed in because you misunderstood Pikkety, which... you know, seems fair game on a philosophy forum. And it's not only about inequality of wealth...
You missed Pikkety's point. The point is that those with capital will only get richer, while others who do produce get poorer in relation. Investors d...
People feel like certain groups, be it nations, sportsteams, parties are part of their identity... that's to say there's no stark difference between t...
Fair enough, there's no need to go there in this thread. But yes, a lot of what is included under the term systemic racism is I think caused by povert...
People tend to be myopic, it's hard motivate them with something that is gradual and in the longterm. If some accident happens they typically do want ...
Thank you for the detailed response, and the examples. This does make a lot of sense, the models are only a rough approximation of an underlying reali...
But if that small group being dominated were ethnically the same as the big group you wouldn't call it racism would you, even though it is essentially...
But purely based on those models we're going from on stable state to another right? That's what crossing those tipping points does, even if we stop em...
Not if the lower floor is insignificant relative the height you are jumping from... dead is dead. But thank you for the info, I'm trying to get a hand...
And Isaac, even within one country or political unit all separation between groups need not be caused only by racism. People seem to tend to stick to ...
I don't think so. If say a big group conquers a previously relatvily unknown separate small group that happens to be another etnicity and stays to dom...
I could agree with it's an ideology created in support of organised ethnic groups dominating ethnic minorities. If you literally mean 'is the same' th...
Racism is a bit similar I suppose. You tend to see it where larger organised ethnic groups dominate other ethnic minorities. It's not only whites, tha...
The claim that war is not in our nature by pointing to hunter gatherer groups showing little of it, is either a bit of a truism or an argument that do...
Like the expertise certainly! But what are you actually saying about what the models predict? The non conservative models show stable states and tippi...
Sure, it does seem ideology is often used merely as a justification... be we do get socialized into a culture too. Part of our nature is that we need ...
I can certainly buy that there's a political bias to the way things have been explained historically, and I'll even buy that our war-like nature has b...
I tend to think there's no one attribute that explains all our behaviour. I think we have both tendencies, we like cute things and have capacity for l...
Yeah I'm no expert by any means, it's always hard to discuss these things if we get into the weeds, but from what I've gathered it's more of a general...
I've heard you make that claim before, in your thread about delayed gratification, but I'm unsure about it. While we are certainly very cooperative as...
Yeah or check out how population genetics show Bantu's spread across Africa and how they kept pygmies around as a slave population probably for a coup...
Yes I agree, it doesn't necessarily indicate quality, but popularity one would think. I could do without the function, but don't mind it that much eit...
Changing your energy supply systems is not that easy, as is illustrated by China building more coal plants despite renewable energy being cheaper than...
That's a pity, because I really do think this is the most effective way to turn this around... if we had some of the world players committed to and ac...
From an energy theoretical point of view that might be true, but I suspect there are practical and technological reasons why it isn't used more as of ...
Yes ok, that's along the lines of what I'd expect is happening. You've got the knowledge, the technology and the logistics already figured out and fin...
I've thinking about it some more, and perhaps I've been understating the importance of the US reducing its emissions a bit. The US is still the most p...
https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissions-china-goes-on-a-coal-spree I couldn't quite get a clear reason why they'd go with coal...
This make no sense at all, why are they doing this? Even if they don't give a damn about effects on climate change, you'd think they choose the cheape...
You keep saying I want to comfort myself by not calling it an existential threat, but that was never my intention. At every opportunity I said it was ...
It matters what kind of molecules the stuff in the atmosphere is made of. They don't all have the same effect on light coming in and energy radiating ...
This is a non sequitur, volcanic ash is volcanic ash and not clouds and a lot of greenhouse gasses. Anyway, read up on some science TheMadFool, you se...
Greenhouse gasses trap heat, and causes global warming. This is well documented, from the geological record, and follows from the physics of how light...
Come on, put in some effort please. Existential threat is defined as a threat to all human life. It's right there in the article Xtrix linked to. I'm ...
Extreme weather in the form of cold, for a month, 'globally' probably is very unlikely in a global warming scenario. And even then it does not cause c...
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