COP26 is upcoming, in Glasgow...deserves its own thread, in conjunction with the reconciliation bill. — Xtrix
Here's a go-to guide to see you through COP26, and get you up to speed on what it’s all about and why it’s so important.
Switching to a plant-based diet can help fight climate change, according to a major report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which says the West's high consumption of meat and dairy is fuelling global warming. — BBC
Human activities have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, amplifying Earth's natural greenhouse effect.
— www.climate.gov
Does hypercapnia (carbon dioxide poisoning) explain the chaos apparent in the world today?
Hypercapnia may happen in the context of an underlying health condition, and symptoms may relate to this condition or directly to the hypercapnia. Specific symptoms attributable to early hypercapnia are dyspnea (breathlessness), headache, confusion and lethargy.
— Wikipedia
Are climate deniers and all others who are in a state of confusion (the whole world basically) suffering from CO2 poisoning? :chin: — TheMadFool
Trust mother nature to solve our problems (for us) is the takeaway. — TheMadFool
The way I see it, we're the problem. Nature will 'solve' us soon enough. — Olivier5
You don't destroy the village to save the village. — 180 Proof
I don't think mother nature's antinatalistic. — TheMadFool
Clearly she is a big fan of reproduction, but in all species, not just in one species at the expense of other ones... The key conceptual difference between God and Nature is that the latter is species-neutral while the former is believed to be anthropocentric. — Olivier5
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and [1]multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. — Genesis 1:28
Is God a mathematician? — Mario Livio
Malthus specifically stated that the human population increases geometrically, while [2]food production increases arithmetically. — Investopedia
:chin: The Bitch inexorably breeds and always devours her young (re: Earth's fossil record, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, black holes) – devouring may be the catalyst for breeding – like Medea (cosmic entropy).I don't think mother nature's antinatalistic. — TheMadFool
The Bitch inexorably breeds and always devours her young (re: Earth's fossil record, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, black holes) – devouring maybe a catalyst for breeding – like Medea (aka "entropy"). Special of the Galactic Day: "The Anthropocene — 180 Proof
The more I look at the universe, just the less convinced I am that something benevolent is going on. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
subdue it; have dominion
— Genesis 1:28
See what I am saying? The Guy used to be pro-human. I wonder if He changed His mind now. — Olivier5
God moves in mysterious ways. — William Cowper (1773)
Like a cosmic zombie, "Mother Nature" is blind and indifferent to Her own regurgitative decomposition; thus, She cannot be either benevolent or malevolent – morals, Fool, are only for (some?) sentient maggots. — 180 Proof
"Good" for what? "Good" for whom? Other than 'absent negative phenomenologies', does "good" have any objective moral (contra self-serving) meaning? I don't think so.make the simulation universe as good as possible — TheMadFool
the Jews still haven't lost their faith. — TheMadFool
Some Jews have kept their faith; others lost it. — Olivier5
How would we (the simulation makers) know that?Good for the resident artificial consciousnesses. — TheMadFool
Good for the resident artificial consciousnesses.
— TheMadFool
How would we (the simulation makers) know that? — 180 Proof
Don't change the subject Answer my last question first. — 180 Proof
I'm an (antitheist) atheist and I've made many posts arguing against the PoE. Also, the phrase "this world is the best of all possible worlds" makes no modal sense to me insofar as I'm an actualist (which means I reject 'possibilism' (i.e. possible world semantics) or 'modal realism'). Your 'simulation ad absurdum', Fool, is besides the point, even incoherent as a solution in search of a problem — 180 Proof
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