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I don’t think it would be any more or less pointless than it is now. If heat death is inevitable, nothing really “matters”. That said, the planet’s ecological
by tmountain 5y ago
I don’t think it would be any more or less pointless than it is now. If heat death is inevitable, nothing really “matters”.
That said, the planet’s ecological health was indisputably better before the industrial revolution.
Things sucked for humans in a lot of ways, but almost every other species was in a much better place.
- yesenadam 5y agoSurely not the place for this topic, but anyway. > If heat death is inevitable, nothing really “matters”. I never understand how, for people who say this, whether things go on forever the same (or slow down in trillions of years, or something else,) affects whether things matter here and now. How would anything be any different if things were going to go on forever the same? What kind of ideal universe would you like for it to seem like "things really matter"? It seems similar to (what seem to me mistaken) ideas of life being meaningless if it's not eternal, or if there's no god, or if the universe is so huge etc.. I don't see how anything of those things would change the here and now, or the significance of things.
- tmountain 5y agoFor clarity, I’m speaking to something mattering in the grand philosophical scheme of things—-not to whether anyone’s life has meaning, is worth living, etc. When confronted with a question of what matters to the earth (something that is 4.5 billion years old), you start looking at things on a cosmic scale. For whatever it’s worth, I enjoy my life, and I don’t really care if it “matters”. It’s a lot more fun to just follow the thread than worry how my short time here fits into time scales orders of magnitude longer than my lifespan.