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I have indeed noticed a tendency in the West lawmakers to believe that when human and nature laws collide, human laws should win ...

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• TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
  Politically, humanity's physical environment is considered exterior and stable, but the social environment is almost infinitely plastic and easily influenced by persuasion and rhetoric. So human politics is far more obviously powerful than science. It's been a good-enough approximation for most of history, even though in practice it's completely wrong. Politics is badly in need of a Copernican revolution which puts the physical world at the centre of politics, not the periphery.