Because of admin interference with the content https://lemmy.ml/modlog/16033 and disciplinary actions we obviously can't stay here.

We've set up shop on http://lemm.ee/c/collapse !collapse@lemm.ee so please update your subscription if you intend to continue to follow this community.

At some point this community will be mothballed, unless wabooti@lemmy.ml wants to continue taking care of it.

  • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
    ·
    3 months ago

    It's a trash article, that's why

    How is it, then, that the wealthiest, most scientifically-aware, best-informed and globally hyper-connected generation of decision-makers nd ordinary people seems incapable of applying the most basic rules of evidence to resolving this self-made predicament?

    Wow, a tough problem! If only someone had considered this issue 150 years ago

    As long as the individual manufacturer or merchant sells a manufactured or purchased commodity with the usual coveted profit, he is satisfied and does not concern himself with what afterwards becomes of the commodity and its purchasers. The same thing applies to the natural effects of the same actions. What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and obtained from the ashes sufficient fertiliser for one generation of very highly profitable coffee trees – what cared they that the heavy tropical rainfall afterwards washed away the unprotected upper stratum of the soil, leaving behind only bare rock! In relation to nature, as to society, the present mode of production is predominantly concerned only about the immediate, the most tangible result.

    From the paper:

    Each major sub-system is in itself so complex that no human mind can fully understand, let alone control, its structure or behaviour in isolation, far less as part of the integrated whole. Who fully understands the world economy or even the internet; does anyone really believe the climate system can be brought under human command and control?

    It is under human command and control. The article notes earlier that climate change has been brought on by humans driven by pursuit of ever increasing economic growth.