BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pblakeney]

There's a lot of stuff out there that might change your mind, like this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU39jN0WEZg

Doesn't strike me as being very natural.

 

[briantrumpet]

There's a lot of stuff out there that might change your mind, like this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU39jN0WEZg

Brilliant, thanks Pinno.

 

[Pblakeney]

Better for what? We're just one of the millions of various kinds of fauna, albeit a dominant one. We don't exist outside nature. If we 'overgraze' we'll go extinct, like other animals before us.

Less pollution, less mining, less chopping things down, burning, etc, etc. No nukes. 😱
Better for all the other species.

 

[Pblakeney]

"It's hard and slow to improve" doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do our best as long as we share this planet with other organisms that were here before us and will be here after us (lichens and funguses, if nothing else).

I think we should reduce our impact on the planet. Interference seems to just lead to unintended consequences.
PS - I'm no angel. Just a bit self aware.

 

[briantrumpet]

I think we should reduce our impact on the planet. Interference seems to just lead to unintended consequences.
PS - I'm no angel. Just a bit self aware.

Your 'reduce our impact' though reads to me like walking away from the mess we've made. We can make it better, as Pinno's video shows, if we do it well. 8bn people can make quite the difference, if we pull in similar directions.

 

[Psamathe]

That is kind of my point. We are shaping the World the way we think it should be. It is a god complex mixed in with an extremely high level of arrogance. The planet will exist after we have gone, and will arguably be much better long after we've gone.

Or, having ignored considering any consequences of our actions for far too long we are not doing the best we can (in places) to try and recover something. Along the lines of "If you want to get there you don't want to start here". That said, most western world are not yet even doing "the best we can" but perpetuating the destruction because they view the world as an economy rather than a society and refuse to address the real issues.

 

[CXRAndy]

Your 'reduce our impact' though reads to me like walking away from the mess we've made. We can make it better, as Pinno's video shows, if we do it well. 8bn people can make quite the difference, if we pull in similar directions.

Humans are tribal, will always fight against others