Both. We need a group replicating sameness in its members, and indivuals breaking away from it and introducing new standards in the group. Much like i...
Things are getting better and worse, depending on how one looks at it and what one values. Pinker, Rösling and the like will point at material conditi...
Yes I guess I basically agree with your analysis :-), but disagree with the assumption that the world is going to continue in this upward trajectory I...
No. Morality is not the driver of things, nor does it evolve on its own/following its own logic. Rather, morality is a by-product of, or is at least e...
Yes, I'm against it, for physical and psychological reasons. Entropy is a fundamental law of the universe, so ultimately any non world-denying spiritu...
You make a choice to stick your head in the ground? It obviously does matter what the likelyhood of succeeding is. Suppose we have a very small chance...
I doubt it can be done without certain consequences... You haven't seen them because we haven't talked about that specifically. Most of these 81 pages...
You really believe that there no more debate to be had about how we are going to solve this? That seems rather close-minded. I feel like we only have ...
The point is that it is not as black and white as a lot of you seem to be making it out to be. Or it only gets looked at on this binary carbon emissio...
Not as much as some want us to believe was my point. The 7 trillion from the IMF certainly wasn't a very fair estimate, and that's the study that blin...
I don't think EROI is getting much better with renewables, there's a cap to how much they can improve in effeciency because of the underlying physics ...
It can be manufactured only to a certain extend I would say. Equal replacements in terms of EROI and all other conveniences are not available at scale...
Yeah maybe this is it. I don't see the world like this. I think all of political action happens against the backdrop of public opinion/common culture....
I didn't claim that. Only thing I did was question the black and white "no-brainer" distinction you set up between doing something about climate chang...
I don't think I'm saying anything out of the ordinary. We know climate is changing because of carbon emissions, and we know our economy and entire civ...
Did it? Usually people either deny climate change or the consequences... or they "deny" the consequences of phasing out fossil fuels. So, yes, damned ...
Maybe they only think they don't demand radical political change of that kind out of ignorance, because they don't understand what it would take to ke...
I don't think this is entirely fair. Doing something about anthropogenic climate change is reducing our use of fossil fuels. Reducing our use of fossi...
At this point there is a disconnect between what would be needed to solve climate change and the ecological crisis more generally, and societal goals....
I think it's important to point out things that won't work because resources, time and political capital is limited. If we bet on and invest in things...
Here's another example of why it's not only about heat vs cold : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/08/storm-hans-causes-havoc-in-norway-with-...
I agree it's going to be hard to stop global warming, and I agree there are some real tradeoffs (not necessarily between heating and cooling, but betw...
Plants don't have legs to migrate to northern latitudes, or heating/clothes to adapt to the worst of extreme temperatures. And animals depend on plant...
Both. It's a convention, like I said, and makes some sense considering the industrial revolution was the time we started burning fossil fuels, and the...
This is merely a convention, so that they talk about the same thing... it is not a mistake, but a choice, one could maybe argue about, sure. We don't ...
There's a third option. I think these problems precisly come from being to smart, from being to succesfull. We managed to outsmart the ecology we came...
Yeah, but then a global goverment comes with its own set of problems, a heavy bureaucracy would be one of them. And a lot of power attracts all types ...
Ok maybe I can buy that to some extend, a lot of people aren't really all that politically motivated at all. But saying they want to combat climate ch...
If his point is that some countries won't coöperate he obviously does have a point. Whatever Russia says in COP related meetings, it won't reduce its ...
I don't think anybody really knows BC. Global warming is typically presented in averages, 1° C, 1,5 C, 2° C rise in global average etc... actual tempe...
Yes it just depressing, imagine this 20 years further, and probably minimum another 1° C of global warming on top of it. We'll have to deal with this ...
Nuclear energy is fine. The waste is not that big of a problem, certainly not compared to other issues we have with carbon emissions. The only downsid...
No, I think you should go radical ;-), but not in the typical way perhaps. I don't think little tweaks will do it. Climate change, bio-diversity loss ...
My last reply maybe makes it sound like I disagree a lot more than I actually do. I know this narrative that claims the real issue is that Western cul...
Ok. I don't think pursuing progress is some whimsical arbitrary decision we made at some point, and we then consequently "somehow" came to this point....
Yes this yearning for the good old days sums it up pretty much. Tolkien was coming from a world wherein Britain was the dominant world power, a percei...
Lord of the Rings is good, I definitely enjoyed the movies, but as a philosophy it is ultimately maybe a bit reactionary. There's a ton about this. Bu...
Yes it was meant as a sort of disclaimer or framing of how I think one can sensibly speak about these kind of things. Our situation is dire, I agree w...
I voted other, because I think the idea that civilization should be a certain way is misguided. We invented civilization and keep on re-inventing it a...
It doesn't work because in a global economy you get outcompeted by those that cannibalize the environment for any kind of edge... so then there's a sy...
This sounds reasonable, but I don't think this is how it actually works, at least not on the societal scale. How many times in history has a giant tra...
In Europe there already has been a decent amount of social awareness of the problem. One war and energy-prices skyrocketing, and that social awareness...
I think attaining these other goals cannot be separated from humanities impact on the planet. It's not only about people having different values, but ...
I don't think so, It's probably as close to an universal human psychological truth you can come. Maybe you could say he probably saw it a bit more cle...
I don't think it's about fear necessarily. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering (Nietzsche)" I think we want to ...
So I think Mao actually was consistent in his logic to implement the revolution. Tradition and religion are stabilizing and crowd controlling forces. ...
I made a similar point earlier, namely that secularization may in fact have created the space for these events in the 20th century. If religion has be...
Your values come for a large part from the society you get raised in. Experience feeds into it, but not in this direct factual way one maybe might pre...
But it's not about truth, it's about values, which do not have a truth-value (as in something that can just be verified empirically). I know this is a...
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