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Originally Posted by Cedars
I dunno, for some its general skeptism of the ability of science to predict climate changes in the future. Might have something to do with bird flu pandemics. For others it may be they expect more from science than they do from the doomsayers of the religiously indoctrined.
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Regarding the doomsayers, I think religious wisdom is informed by historical observation of natural (including social) systems.
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But you think that science relates to Flu pandemics the same way that Elephant guns work here in the city? Y'know... I've got this gun to kill elephants and there are none around, so it must work.
You're essentially saying that science is 'making up' this possibility of Flu, so that science can show how effective its monitoring, prevention, and eradication programs are?
While I think they are missing some opportunities to search for natural resistance (in their culling programs), I am happy that they are using science to "adapt" to Flu's potential; and that we are not letting nature take its course and, through our business as usual strategies, letting nature decide how we "Adapt or go extinct."
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As any one-celled species will die out if it only continues growing to fill its niche, so too will humans.
Only when one-celled creatures develop, and metamorphose into a biofilm, can they sustainably fill a niche.
Humans must focus more on development and less on growth.
Our 18th and 19th centuries saw mostly growth and expansion. What was the 20th century?
Where are we now? Are we focusing on growth and expansion, or on development and metamorphosis?
We couldn't survive as individuals, we needed families. We couldn't survive as families, we needed tribes. etc., ...tibes to clans, clans to city-states, city-states to nations, nations to....
Do you think we've stopped developing and that no fundamental new identities must emerge, if we are to continue without going the way of creatures who simply expand to fill their niche?
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p.s. Texas? 600kya?
