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You’re not wrong. I, in fact, paused with a similar self-critique when typing it. I think where maybe I landed after chewing upon it momentarily was how assigning capitalism as a root cause for our mediocre milquetoast attempts at mitigating climate change thus far is both a) too simplistic, and b) too convenient a scapegoat to emotionally let ourselves as individuals off the hook. Perhaps a better root cause of our Fiddling_Nero-level lethargy on climate gets framed as a sort of selfish shortsightedness; a desire for relief in the present moment at the expense of some still unrealized potential future narrative. At the risk of being reductive: Capitalism isn’t the root cause of anything, really. Dopamine and how we each act to spike it is. That won’t change by switching the social order to a more socialistic or even communistic one, though would certainly be helpful if we could all just be a little less horrible to each other and think a bit more about what’s left when we’re gone.

Capitalism isn’t necessarily to blame, at least not as much as our failure to include negative externalities into the costs paid by producers and consumers of goods and services. Manufacturer doesn’t get fined for poisoning the water. Consumer doesn’t get taxed for continuing to buy goods from that manufacturer. The cycle of water poisoning persists while healthcare needs skyrocket and economic burdens get shifted (shafted?) to everyone downstream who weren’t ever even involved in the transaction. Carbon taxes were an attempt to address this and it want capitalism that made it fail. It was politics and short term self-interest among plutocrats.

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Breathing

Update your approach. Communicate clearly. Provide evidence. Support your stance on the merits. Address criticisms clearly and specifically without hand-waving. Whining like an infant or claiming discrimination / free speech issues on a private internet site like SFN, a site with rules to which you agreed when registering for membership, will get you nowhere other than maybe banned when we get bored of you. Welcome to the NFL. Nobody is forcing you play. Nobody is forcing you to carry the football live on the field. Everyone else here meanwhile will keep playing without you until you figure out how to properly defend your ideas when challenged. Step up or step out, cowboy.

Because humans are weird mostly hairless apes who exist in groups and are wired accordingly

That study, it should be noted, is already 15 years old and the number of atheists/agnosticists (aka atheists who lack the courage of their conviction) have only further grown since then across the general population. Religiosity seems to shrink further every year, seemingly to be replaced by nationalism and various other forms of tribal grouping.

One can only hope

Stunningly filmed thus far.

Thx for the rec

Propaganda and active disinformation campaigns. The bigger the lie, the more people believe it.

Especially if you do so with some fava beans and a nice chianti Tell me, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming? /ot

It suggests to me that character and principle are not something genetic nor chiseled in stone, but a plastic malleable part of how we plug into the society around us. We are shaped by what we ingest, both our bodies and our minds

Thanks for the share

No, you’re not No, there isn’t The universe is under no obligation to make sense to our tiny ape minds, and it will continue operating exactly as it does and always has regardless of your personal inability to comprehend those operations accurately. While your username suggests travel across time, your basic stance here suggests time can stop. As it doesn’t, never has, and never will, your basic stance is absurd.

It’s pretty reductionist and lacks nuance, but generally organisms will fit into both categories depending on context and framing. It also sounds vaguely Marxist.

I’ve enjoyed many of his talks through the years, though it has been a minute. “There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”

First, there more than just male and female. Second, it’s neither good or bad. It just is. Sex differentiation began long before humans existed. Perhaps on some other planet in some other galaxy there are no sexes, but on earth there are. Also, don’t conflate cultural norms and nurture teachings with something inherent in X versus Y chromosomes.

Electronic devices aren’t plastic, nor effected in the same way by chemistry and experience. There’s a whole lotta wrong in your OP, and essentially nothing correct

Also the massive stimulus programs deployed during Covid to ensure recovery more quickly after vaccines were finally developed and released helped quite a bit.

Fun fact: The universe is under no obligation to make sense to uninformed human minds

Am I the only one who sees the OP as a backhanded way to spam and drive clicks to a crap video?

The inflation reduction act is the single largest investment in addressing climate change ever across all of human history… so far… and dividends are beginning already https://www.epi.org/blog/the-inflation-reduction-act-finally-gave-the-u-s-a-real-climate-change-policy/