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Man's changes are abrupt and discrete. We are not outside of nature but we rock the boat pretty hard.

• chc 15y ago
  So essentially, we're capable of making quicker adjustments than most natural forces? If anything, that should make it easier for us to out-engineer nature, not harder.
  • lutorm 15y ago
    That's like saying that deregulated financial instruments made it easier for us to out-engineer the market. It looked like it worked, for a while, but it turned out there were... downsides. When a worldwide monoculture crashes, it's going to be more difficult to effect a food bailout.
    • anamax 15y ago
      Regulated financial instruments are a monoculture. Besides, what makes you think that regulators get things right? Even if you ignore regulatory capture, regulators are imperfect, have less information than market participants have, and have their own goals.