XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp
rt.schizophrenia
From: fedora@fea.st
On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:51:44 -0400, Wilson wrote:
>On 7/10/2021 3:18 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 14:18:30 -0400, Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/10/2021 1:39 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 13:15:15 -0400, ansaman wrote:
>>>>> On 7/10/2021 12:45 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>> What I say is that when humans lived as hunter gatherers with pointy
>>>>>> sticks for weapons and the ability to outlast a deer sometimes, they
>>>>>> were living within natural systems, not destructive to them. That is
>>>>>> no longer the case. And I also say that the human brain has not had
>>>>>> time to adapt to civilized life.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is true that I did not say that very well. Here is another
>>>>>> attempt.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is more comprehensible, but just remember that long before
>>>>> mankind, other organisms destroyed the natural systems they lived in.
>>>>>
>>>>> During the Archean Eon, all the life on this planet lived
>>>>> anaerobically. There was little free oxygen until the cyanobacteria
>>>>> came along and produced what scientists refer to as the Great Oxidation
>>>>> Event. They filled the atmosphere with oxygen and they live on
>>>>> as the symbiotic chloroplasts within plant cells.
>>>>
>>>> That is not a destruction. That is an evolution.
>>>
>>> Those anaerobic bacteria would like to have a word with you. But they
>>> can't because they are all dead!
>>
>> So are dinosaurs, but not because they destroyed the ecosystem.
>
>You don't actually know that.
Better to say, I know it, but you don't. That universe thing again.
Noah Sombrero
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