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>I'm no scientist, but it amazes me that people can still think with all the industry, all the forests cut down, all the cars on the road, that our planet is ma
by aphextron 8y ago
>I'm no scientist, but it amazes me that people can still think with all the industry, all the forests cut down, all the cars on the road, that our planet is magical and can handle it all.
No one really does. They just have enough accumulated conflicts of interest to accepting that fact that life is easier for them to not do so.
- ergothus 8y agoI think you underestimate the various causes for willful ignorance. It is very easy for a tiny human to assume the planet is huge and little the human can do will be significant. Ask a human to imagine 100,000 people and they are already outside our capacity. To ask them to realistically imagine millions or billions over decades and, well, the behavior is undefined. I certainly think there are a LOT of people choosing to take the easiest (short-term) belief, but I also think there are plenty of people who just can't imagine people-scale impacting world-scale. I had a friend who made the argument that he thinks it is arrogance to assume humans can harm the global environment on the scale of climate change. I see it as arrogance to assume we CAN'T. But I don't think he's being disingenuous - he just handles the overflow error differently.