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What makes you think that animals and plants are less affected by unusual weather than humans? Most species have a lot less technology to help them cope with th
by adrianN 4y ago
What makes you think that animals and plants are less affected by unusual weather than humans? Most species have a lot less technology to help them cope with the change.
- Dalewyn 4y agoWhat makes you think animals and plants care? Life has existed long before humans ever came onto the scene, and life has experienced environmental highs and lows that would make humanity shriek in absolute horror. Life will go on and the Earth will continue to spin and orbit, whether humanity does or not.
- anon84873628 4y agoSo what's your point? That we shouldn't care about climate change because "life goes on"? That's a pretty low bar. Personally I would like to preserve a future both where humans can survive and some of Earth's great ecological diversity is maintained. Those systems can't "care" because they're not sentient, but I am.
- Dalewyn 4y agoMy point is that the concept of "El Ninos should happen <here>" is specifically a human perspective. As far as the planet and our peers are concerned, it doesn't really matter where such phenomena occur. Nature gonna nature and life gonna life. Besides that, personally I have no attachment to humanity in particular. Objectively, the planet would be much better off without us around. That's not to say I would go out of my way to not exist; I'm already here, might as well enjoy my time here. But I'm not going to go out of my way to "preserve humanity" or whatever either. Life has persevered without us before we came around, and life will persevere whether we exist or not.
- lavantgarde 4y ago> Objectively, the planet would be much better off without us around That's specifically a human perspective.
- Dalewyn 4y agoIs it? In terms of how much we get along with the enrivonment compared to our peers, we do pretty horrible. The planet wouldn't care since it doesn't care about life one way or another, though; I grant you that.
- lavantgarde 4y agoRight. That was my point in response to your point that value judgements are reliant on human consciousness.
- adrianN 4y agoEvolution has made most lifeforms care about their wellbeing. In my ethics causing unnecessary suffering and loss of diversity is not okay just because ultimately the universe will reach a state of maximum entropy and everything will have been without meaning.
- mjan22640 4y agoLife is a local entropy drop at the cost of a global entropy boost, in the entropy-ethics life is fundamentaly unethical.
- wyldfire 4y ago> Life will go on and the Earth will continue to spin and orbit, whether humanity does or not. Greetings Professor Falken!
- yread 4y agopopulation-wise life will go on. For any individual it's a lot less certain. Plants or animals
- anon84873628 4y agoFor example, plants which leave dormancy (or proceed to a new phase such as flowering) during the unusually warm periods, only to be severely damaged when the cold returns. Species may be maladapted to the new weather patterns. We also see the less direct ecological effects such as new pests thriving in area -- new weather patterns create an ecosystem to which the species is no longer adapted. E.g. fungi killing trees. Or for humans, "tropical diseases" becoming common in more northern areas.