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Do you have a specific criticism of his post or do you just fully the hate the idea that there are systems structured such that for some set perturbations, they
by creddit 7y ago
Do you have a specific criticism of his post or do you just fully the hate the idea that there are systems structured such that for some set perturbations, they regain a stable equilibrium??
- onion2k 7y agoI hate the idea that people think the environment is a stable system. It very clearly isn't. There are literally tens of thousands of papers and studies demonstrating that it's changing and not returning to its prior state. To argue that some change (eg sea urchin population) will return to its previous level in the face of that is stupid. I'm not saying it won't, but no one should state with confidence that it will, because we don't know.
- monort 7y agoWe do know in many cases, here is an example of stable succession of forest systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession#Types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession#Types
- neuronic 7y agoThe attitude of "we can break it as much as we want because it will fix itself (in a few million years)" is so disturbing.