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I do not want to conserve nature, i want to convert it to the form that is useful for people.

• s_kilk 7y ago
  The exact kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.
  • chr1 7y ago
    If by "this mess" you mean civilisation in general, then yes, civilisation and science have originated in places where people had to make large scale changes to environment to survive (mesopotamia, egypt, etc.). But then "this mess" is much better than the alternative of small tribes living as hunter gatherers, until planet would run out of CO2 in 600mln years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
  • panzagl 7y ago
    And this is why some many people dismiss climate change as just noise- 'Climate change will kill us all'- 'then we should plant trees here'- 'we can't do that- think of the cacti and gerbils' If climate change is really something that needs OMG now levels of response you can't then dismiss every response on philosophical reasons.
• mikorym 7y ago
  When the Khoisan and their distant cousins of other names were killed by colonisers from West Africa and later Europe, the Kalahari desert turned out to be a very useful (and the last) place for them.