(August 29, 2016 at 2:14 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:Okay.(August 28, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Order to whom?
To those who think in terms of order and chaos, of course.
(August 28, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: I think you got me on beehives, but beaver dams are a hodgepodge pile of the bones and chewed off limbs of innocent trees.
The actual lay of the branches and twigs may seem disorderly, but they produce order in the environment, in the sense that they tend to reduce the randomness of currents in that body of water.
(August 28, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Automobiles here mean strip mines and polluting factories over there. What "order" do we add to the earth?
Metallurgy of all sorts separates the metal from its ores; refining ores is an exercise in increasing the orderliness of the metallic atoms.
(August 28, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Our current form of consumer civilization is causing the 6th mass extinction of earths biodiversity. "We" are creating disorder with reckless abandon and almost zero foresight.
A reduction in biodiversity is not necessarily a reduction in order. This is a false equivocation.
And of the flooding damage/disorder beaver damns cause?
It sure does. And what ratio of earth is disordered for the amount of ordered metal atoms produced?
Let's take a look at gold: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/what-is-...ning-gold/
Top 50 grade producing mines move an average of 9.39 tons of earth for an amount of gold the size of a golf ball.
How so? Lets just take one organism out of the biodiversity pool...how about all bee's? I wonder what disorder that might cause the biosphere let alone human civilization?
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