Itoero
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4 hours ago, EWyatt said:
Afterlife? The thing is, we're here now, and if it can happen once, it can happen again. That, I believe, is the key to "afterlife" no matter if our "next" life happens a millisecond or 100 trillion years after this one. I don't believe we can dispute the "if it happened once it can happen again" concept.
When you lose a loved one then you miss him or her and want/wish to see him or her again. This is imo a main reason people believe in afterlife.
I often want to believe in afterlife but from a scientific point of view there is no reason to believe in afterlife. We are one of the many animal species on Earth. From a biological point of view there is nothing special about us.
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Today I learned Kilimanjaro ice could be gone in 10 years.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/nov/03/kilimanjaro-melting-ice-climate-change
http://www.bbc.com/storyworks/travel/fit-for-purpose/climate-change-kilimanjaro
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I don't know if this is an environmental crisis. But the loss of vegetation/trees causes soil erosion which can cause Desertification.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_desertification
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The decline of nature (cutting of trees, extinction of animals) is related to global warming and I find the most urgent environmental crisis.
According to some estimates, 100 million sharks may be killed annually, mostly to feed China's demand for shark fin soup. Most sharks are predatory fish. Killing so many sharks messes up the ecosystem. Predators have an important role.
The killing of all wolves in greater Yellowstone changed the natural landscape....The absence of wolves enabled ungulates to increase in population and live semi-sedentair which enabled them to eat flora (mostly close to rivers) until it's all eaten. This caused local plants and trees to be extinct or reduce in population which caused for example the beaver to be locally extinct.
The same happens in oceans due to killing of sharks and in many continental places due the killing of predators.
I hope I made myself clear.
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15 hours ago, Ken Fabian said:
don't see climate change as being about socialism or capitalism - much as many wish to make it about those - but about responsibility and accountability
Climate change is also due to methane release of livestock. I immediately think about the sheep farming in Patagonia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_sheep_farming_boom This has a big economic impact.
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4 hours ago, zapatos said:How does melting ice result in less water in rivers?
The ‘third pole’ is the planet’s largest reservoir of ice and snow after the Arctic and Antarctic. It encompasses the Himalaya–Hindu Kush mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau. Meltwater feeds ten great rivers, including the Indus, Brahmaputra, Ganges, Yellow and Yangtze, on which almost one-fifth of the world’s population depends.
Climate change threatens this vast frozen reservoir For the past 50 years, glaciers in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau have been shrinking.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07838-4 The meltwater of the third pole feeds a lot of rivers if the third pole is nearly gone, then it can't feed rivers sufficiently. Basically, due to the warming, glaciers melt more in the summer then they grow in the winter. The third pole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Pole
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Can science prove God ?
in Religion
In the OP afterlife is mentioned.
It seems extremely unlikely. The cosmological model for the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution is what formed this solar system. And one planet (Earth) in this solar system had the correct composition for abiogenesis which developed/evolved humans. Our history is what forms us.
In what way can all of this happen again?