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I don't really care that natural systems have incredible complexity and capabilities if they aren't understood, optimized, and controlled for our benefit. If we
by themacguffinman 7y ago
I don't really care that natural systems have incredible complexity and capabilities if they aren't understood, optimized, and controlled for our benefit. If we only have a thousand years left, I want to spend those thousand years engineering things for our benefit, not nature's. Perhaps dealing with advanced soil retainers and other natural systems in the next hundred years is a necessary stepping stone, so be it, but I won't pretend like I think it's an ideal vision of the future.
- boringg 7y agoAppreciate your honesty. I think it is important to note that nature's benefit and our benefit overlap significantly. We do damage to nature and in turn do more damage to ourselves and our own future capability. Probably best to work within the complex model that is keeping us alive then ripping apart only to realize we've destroyed our only form of sustenance. Just my cents.