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> Being able to clean up environmental messes is more important than preventing them in the future, and they are not mutually exclusive. I disagree with the fi
by korethr 8y ago
> Being able to clean up environmental messes is more important than preventing them in the future, and they are not mutually exclusive.
I disagree with the first clause of this point. I think it's better to prevent environmental messes to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I'm not denigrating cleaning up messes, that's important too. We'd be fucked it we couldn't clean up after ourselves. But from my perspective, a moderate amount of effort in the present can spare having to spend a greater amount of effort in the future.
That said, I'm glad work is being done to clean plastics from the ocean, hope it continues, and hope it is successful.
- Mizza 8y agoI think this actually overlaps almost identically with the philosophy of Aubrey DeGrey and the longevity/SENS movement. Human activity is our planet's metabolism, and pollution is our accumulated cellular damage (age). To grow old, we must figure out how to repair damage, as it is impossible to entirely prevent aging, it is a natural and unavoidable consequence of our metabolism. So, we must learn to repair it.