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Rowing the boat got us out this far, it would be foolish to think that rowing the boat could get us back /s
by throwaway66920 7y ago
Rowing the boat got us out this far, it would be foolish to think that rowing the boat could get us back /s
- marcosdumay 7y agoWell, the further you go, the less likely is it that you can row it back... What is the exact opposite of engineering. What means that you made a clear point, that I don't think anybody misunderstood, with a clear optimistic message. Still I think it's more pessimist than the reality.
- abathur 7y agoWe didn't have to understand the systems and their feedback loops to break them.
- nabnob 7y agoThermodynamics doesn’t work like that. There’s no undo button.
- throwaway66920 7y agoThermodynamics doesn’t in the sense that entropy always continues... but that’s not really relevant. Climate change does have undo buttons. Things like biodiversity loss may not.