Exnihiloest wrote:What you infer from my words is delusional. It's amazing how you reject a taboo subject. Nature is at the origin of the first 5 "extinctions" but shhh, we must not say it, it could harm his image while it is the man we want to discredit, so silence!
That said, your remark does not fall completely flat, because man is indeed part of nature, so it would be one more extinction of nature.
Delusional is indeed the word!
I do not reject anything, moreover there is no taboo on the subject, everything is largely explained by the scientific study: more than 90% of life forms have died out since the appearance of life on earth.
Life evolves according to an evolution that is both progressive and disruptive, ie punctuated by "jumps" (theory of punctuated balances) and according to a logic of creative destruction.
However, the current period is unprecedented in that it is based on a catastrophe of a new kind based on the emergence of an occupying force which uses mankind.
The new phase of extinction that we are seeing is consecutive to the emergence of a hitherto unprecedented process that we can call the term technologism.
We transform the biosphere into a technosphere by gradually artifying everything that exists (hence GMOs). In such a model there is no pose in sight, but a new process at work which seems to have already largely contaminated your psyche.
What is funny (or distressing for you to choose) is to see praisers like your telling us that all this is great, while you are the first to curse the consequences of all this elsewhere (rise of extremism, crisis covid and "dictatorial" measure (I use your words) of the government to limit our freedoms).
In short, you enjoin us to submit completely to the determinisms at work. The problem with this kind of reasoning is that it only works if we are on the right side of "progress" ...
