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Ecosystems are all interconnected. As an example, see "How Wolves Changed Rivers": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448929 https://news.ycombinator.com/it

by uptown 8y ago

Ecosystems are all interconnected. As an example, see "How Wolves Changed Rivers": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448929 Now, imagine the impact of a million species being wiped from the earth.

matz1 8y ago
There would be impact but if anything human are good with adapting and with technology. Is it impossible to image that these million species roles can be replaced with technology ?
- apacheCamel 8y ago
  This is an honest question: do you really see no issue in replacing bees with robo-bees? Do you really believe humanity can just technology our way out of every issue we face? What happens when the whole system collapses?
  - matz1 8y ago
    > do you really see no issue in replacing bees with robo-bees? What issue do u see ?
    - apacheCamel 8y ago
      Personally, I have a moral issue with it. Bees are living creatures. No amount of tech will ever replace the beauty of a living, breathing creature. This moral issue can be translated to any other creature that we are affecting. They depend on us to be good to them and treat them with the same respect we show any other creature, and we depend on them to sustain us and the planet as a whole.
      - matz1 8y ago
        I see, I personally don't have moral issue with it. I don't consider non-human well being as important. Well, if anything the only time I concern about non-human well being is because it affecting human who care about them.
        apacheCamel 8y ago
        Thank you for sharing, while I disagree with you, I understand your viewpoint and I respect you for sharing it.
    - trymas 8y ago
      Ecological catastrophe? Most of natural plants will not grow fruit and seeds. Plants will die and so will animals that depend on them.
- RobertoG 8y ago
  If we are not able to organize our behaviour in a way that don't destroy the existing working system, why do you believe that we will able to accomplish, the arguable most difficult task, of creating a working system anew?
  - matz1 8y ago
    Sometime its easier to create a new system rather than modifying the current system.
    - RobertoG 8y ago
      Only when the system is very simple and well understood.
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- ionised 8y ago
  This is the most Silicon Valley response I could have hoped for.

by uptown 8y ago

matz1 8y ago

There would be impact but if anything human are good with adapting and with technology. Is it impossible to image that these million species roles can be replaced with technology ?

apacheCamel 8y ago
This is an honest question: do you really see no issue in replacing bees with robo-bees? Do you really believe humanity can just technology our way out of every issue we face? What happens when the whole system collapses?
- matz1 8y ago
  > do you really see no issue in replacing bees with robo-bees? What issue do u see ?
  - apacheCamel 8y ago
    Personally, I have a moral issue with it. Bees are living creatures. No amount of tech will ever replace the beauty of a living, breathing creature. This moral issue can be translated to any other creature that we are affecting. They depend on us to be good to them and treat them with the same respect we show any other creature, and we depend on them to sustain us and the planet as a whole.
    - matz1 8y ago
      I see, I personally don't have moral issue with it. I don't consider non-human well being as important. Well, if anything the only time I concern about non-human well being is because it affecting human who care about them.
      - apacheCamel 8y ago
        Thank you for sharing, while I disagree with you, I understand your viewpoint and I respect you for sharing it.
  - trymas 8y ago
    Ecological catastrophe? Most of natural plants will not grow fruit and seeds. Plants will die and so will animals that depend on them.
RobertoG 8y ago
If we are not able to organize our behaviour in a way that don't destroy the existing working system, why do you believe that we will able to accomplish, the arguable most difficult task, of creating a working system anew?
- matz1 8y ago
  Sometime its easier to create a new system rather than modifying the current system.
  - RobertoG 8y ago
    Only when the system is very simple and well understood.
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ionised 8y ago
This is the most Silicon Valley response I could have hoped for.