"Our awareness of the realities of the natural world and ability to force it to adapt to us, rather than the inverse, is shared by no other creature in the known history of life." We sculpt the environment around us for our immediate and short-sighted self-gain. The environment does not adapt to us. We are not above the environment in any way. Every single one of our inventions must first be derived from our environment. Our food cannot grow, cannot live, if our environment sways just but a few degrees, and that possibility is ever-presently more likely.
We are extremely unique animals, and our specific avenue of evolution is truly fascinating. But I feel that hubris is our worst enemy as far as our specific evolutionary disadvantage.
So far "Intelligent Historical Humanity" has only really existed not that long, but just a blip on the time line of the History of Life. So far, no living creature has survived forever unchanged. I see no reason to believe that we would be an exception. Climate change, global catastrophes, Geothermal activities, astronomical phenomena, those are all things that we really have little control over, but we would have the intelligence to get through almost all of them if: We can first get past our own hubris and over consumption.
Because as smart as we are, we are inevitably tied to the environment because we are in the end only just a piece of the Earth, or the environment that surrounds us. Without Oxygen, we are nothing. If we get too far away from 98 degrees, we are nothing. Without food, which has to be grown from a healthy environment, we are nothing.
With the electoral college, the advent of digital voting machines, and an incredibly flawed two-party system run more on corporate sponsorship then anything, no we are not a functioning democracy, and as far as last election went, I had zero say in who's ruling this country or the direction it is headed.
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No but really Spanish or Chinese are the two languages that would be most useful in today's society.
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"Our awareness of the realities of the natural world and ability to force it to adapt to us, rather than the inverse, is shared by no other creature in the known history of life." We sculpt the environment around us for our immediate and short-sighted self-gain. The environment does not adapt to us. We are not above the environment in any way. Every single one of our inventions must first be derived from our environment. Our food cannot grow, cannot live, if our environment sways just but a few degrees, and that possibility is ever-presently more likely.
We are extremely unique animals, and our specific avenue of evolution is truly fascinating. But I feel that hubris is our worst enemy as far as our specific evolutionary disadvantage.
So far "Intelligent Historical Humanity" has only really existed not that long, but just a blip on the time line of the History of Life. So far, no living creature has survived forever unchanged. I see no reason to believe that we would be an exception. Climate change, global catastrophes, Geothermal activities, astronomical phenomena, those are all things that we really have little control over, but we would have the intelligence to get through almost all of them if: We can first get past our own hubris and over consumption.
Because as smart as we are, we are inevitably tied to the environment because we are in the end only just a piece of the Earth, or the environment that surrounds us. Without Oxygen, we are nothing. If we get too far away from 98 degrees, we are nothing. Without food, which has to be grown from a healthy environment, we are nothing.
Those are all one in the same.
With the electoral college, the advent of digital voting machines, and an incredibly flawed two-party system run more on corporate sponsorship then anything, no we are not a functioning democracy, and as far as last election went, I had zero say in who's ruling this country or the direction it is headed.
British.
No but really Spanish or Chinese are the two languages that would be most useful in today's society.
pwned, good sir. pwned.