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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
22h ago“When caring for the earth feels like a spiritual calling to some and a practical problem to others, how do you find common ground?”
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A bad solution is bad, then, because it acts destructively upon the larger patterns in which it is contained. It acts destructively upon those patterns, most likely, because it is formed in ignorance or disregard of them.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: The Story
The only number that doesn’t bend Extinction is the one environmental loss with no undo. A population can fall ninety-nine percent and still recover; at one hundred it is simply over, for good.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Stewardship theists
Tenants, not owners The Earth is alive to us, but not because it is a god. It is alive because it is the work of one — created, sustained, and held in being moment to moment by God, and therefore charged with a worth we did not assign and cannot revoke.... Thanks Jennifer it's great to hear from you hear! I think you're right that there may be some kinds of metrics for how well Gaia's doing, I wonder if there's a bundle where one of them is diversity.... "How are we behaving that is contrary to our and the planets best interest." this is very close to something that guides my own personal ethics, framed more in the aspiration rather than negation, something like "how do we behave in a way that benefits us individually,... The Open Question April 22: Who decides what's good for the planet?
Hey y'all! It's Earth Day, and I started to ask "what's our role in the health of the planet?"; but "Health" smuggles in a telos the planet doesn't have; not to mention assumptions about us, the planet, morality, etc.... Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: Scientific consensus
Thirty-six years of confirmed predictions In 1988, James Hansen testified before the Senate that human-caused warming had begun. He presented three scenarios....