Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Why the idea of "balanced" Nature is just another Western projection

 treefrog3349

The unspoken presumption in virtually ALL climate change discussions is that the Earth is all about HUMANS! In reality the Earth evolved symbiotically for BILLIONS of years without US. Humans showed up a mere few hundred thousand years ago ( "yesterday" in geologic terms) and has proceeded to wreak havoc upon that symbiotic balance. To this very day we are guided by the naive and primitive beliefs of our ancestors : "Man is the measure of all things" (Greek); and "Man shall have dominion over all the Earth..." (Judaeo-christian). The undeniable, reality is that Humankind has performed like a pernicious invasive species upon the Earth. Ultimately, it will be utter hubris that destroys humanity. Climate change is just a glaring symptom of Man's arrogance.
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yeah you're talking about the last 10% of humans - when agriculture got invented around Earth with the Solar ritual priest pyramids. Science tries to argue that Earth was never in "balance" - the Moon used to be way closer to Earth or whatever. I agree - the goal is that we can and NEED to control the "cycles" of Nature. But yes our first 90% of our species was basically just living in the forest like any other primate. haha. That's really where we belong. It's not that Nature is "balanced" - science is correct about that - but there is a "harmonizing force" to reality that our ancients knew about. It's not the same as "balance." The concept of "balance" is itself part of the problem - essentially symptomatic of a symmetric geometry spatial measurement. This was Slavoj Zizek's big critique of the New Age by the way - back in 1997 - his book "Plague of Fantasies" as an attack against my critique of him. He misunderstood me though - pretty funny. 
 
 Scientists can't pin down exactly how much carbon was injected into the atmosphere during the PETM or exactly how long the event lasted. But their best estimates say between 3,000 and 7,000 gigatons of carbon accumulated over a period of 3,000 to 20,000 years, based on ocean sediment cores that show changes to carbonate minerals laid down during this time.

 Climate change on pace to occur 10 times faster than any change recorded in past 65 million years, Stanford scientists say

 'Yet when we look at geological history we're lucky if we can determine a change in climate over a period of ten thousand years.'

 https://phys.org/news/2015-11-global-fast-today.html

 

 

 

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