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RE: Global Warming: Long term observations yield unsurprising results
March 5, 2015 at 5:31 pm (This post was last modified: March 5, 2015 at 5:32 pm by Faith No More.)
(March 5, 2015 at 5:09 am)ManMachine Wrote:
Here's another point of view.
Humans, like every other species, are subject to the machinery of evolution. The environmental changes that give rise to organism efficiencies from mutation, drift and the other gene-scape forming processes can be caused by many different things, not least of all the organism itself.
It's a branch of Chaos Theory called Complex Adaptive System Theory (CAS Theory). CAS Theory tells us that there are two critical features of any complex system:
1. The initial conditions that 'kick-start' the system
2. The point at which the system generates feedback that affects the system itself
The human race are at point 2, which is giving rise all kinds of unnecessary histrionics and hyperbole. We have reached a point where our actions are impacting the environment that sustains us to our determent, which is a natural evolutionary process, it's happened before to other species and it will happen again.
Fighting to perpetuate conditions optimal for our survival is both futile and arrogant. We have known for over a hundred years how the forces of evolution work and yet we are blind to them when it comes to a critical analysis of our own place on the planet. People like 'Friends of the Earth' are not behaving is a manner that is friendly to the Earth at all - this is a gross misrepresentation - they should be called Friends of Humanity by Attempting to Perpetuate the Conditions Optimal for Human Survival and Fuck the Earth, FoHAPCOHSaFE is not a catchy title I know but is accurate.
So there you have it, the debate about whether or not global 'warming' is an inevitable part of climate change is utterly beside the point and has hidden the real debate for decades. When it comes to the real debate any position that argues from a position that is predicated on our ability to master evolution is nothing short of overblown, out-of-control, species-egotism and is rightly doomed to fail.
MM
What makes you certain that gaining more control over our environment isn't evolutionary progress?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell