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What humans do stops being natural when it is no longer person-power but powered machines. That gives huge amounts of leverage. You would consider a car, or a
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
What humans do stops being natural when it is no longer person-power but powered machines. That gives huge amounts of leverage.
You would consider a car, or a chainsaw natural? I wouldn't.
- ianai 8y agoHumans can light the earth on fire with thousands of nuclear explosions. Almost nothing would survive. I’d say we’re well past natural. But your ways less extreme.
- x3n0ph3n3 8y agoAn asteroid can hit the earth and do the same thing. Is it not natural either?
- User23 8y agoAnd cyanobacteria transformed the entire atmosphere, to such a degree that almost everything else died out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
- jedmeyers 8y agoA long long time ago some organisms “polluted” the athmosphere with oxygen. It wasn’t a natural event in your opinion?
- x3n0ph3n3 8y agoSome of us believe that artificial is merely of a subset of natural and saying that they are disjoint is a kind of naturalistic fallacy.