Damn that is one smart dude. I was not in any way expecting that the most controversial issue in his work would be the ABCs of Ecology (which he brought up in the second video). I feel like the laws of ecology are pretty simple, so the fact that he was contested on the laws of the natural world is just kind of ridiculous to me. This is providing me with something good to write about. Thank you!
Yeah i totally agree, my parents both are biologists so I was raised to think of life in terms of ecosystems. However due to Daniel Quinns spiritual background he approaches in a way that I never have.. hes the man. It astounds me too Oliver that most people don't think like this, to me it adds so much value whenever i look around me, both in our human society and the more encompassing society of life. Being convinced of humanities superiority just isn't as interesting..why see a play and pretend your watching a monologue?
I love this video, Daniel Quinn is incredibly skilled at pointing out areas in which our mob mentality is misdirecting us. It has become increasing clear that our current method of food production is imperiled our population. The argument is indeed true that food subsidies and food donations do not in the long run help with starvation. My level of faith in the natural system ability is absolute, my faith in humanities ability to overcome challenges is also quite high. The reality as I see it is that the methodology that lead to agriculture is the same that lead to our theories on biology. The thinking that lead to our understanding of natural world is the same type that lead to the industrial revolution. In 1896 Svante Arrhenius predicted that humanities production of c02 could caused global warming and might be a result of the industrial revolution. The 1970s these ideas began to be measured and verified, and now it is near unanimous among scientists that we are indeed messing with systems our of our control (a hard thing to accept for even scientists). Now we are at the point where all industries are entering transitions, the knowledge that fossil fuels are running out is causing shifts in every aspect of life. The result of this will be that industries that fail to evolve to modern solution. For example rising fossil fuel costs will make large scale farming less competitive, simultaneously pesticide use has cause decreasing marginal returns, so companies that do not work with nature and their local environment will be out competed by those who do. It happened in Cuba when the Soviet Union fell. I think that we will overcome these challenges, because we must to survive, more-so because we never did leave the biological constraints of the world, we just changed the parameters, and that's what evolution is all about anyway.
anyway though.. great video thanks for sharing it.. got my mind turning
Damn that is one smart dude. I was not in any way expecting that the most controversial issue in his work would be the ABCs of Ecology (which he brought up in the second video). I feel like the laws of ecology are pretty simple, so the fact that he was contested on the laws of the natural world is just kind of ridiculous to me. This is providing me with something good to write about. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYeah i totally agree, my parents both are biologists so I was raised to think of life in terms of ecosystems. However due to Daniel Quinns spiritual background he approaches in a way that I never have.. hes the man.
DeleteIt astounds me too Oliver that most people don't think like this, to me it adds so much value whenever i look around me, both in our human society and the more encompassing society of life.
Being convinced of humanities superiority just isn't as interesting..why see a play and pretend your watching a monologue?
I love this video, Daniel Quinn is incredibly skilled at pointing out areas in which our mob mentality is misdirecting us. It has become increasing clear that our current method of food production is imperiled our population. The argument is indeed true that food subsidies and food donations do not in the long run help with starvation. My level of faith in the natural system ability is absolute, my faith in humanities ability to overcome challenges is also quite high.
ReplyDeleteThe reality as I see it is that the methodology that lead to agriculture is the same that lead to our theories on biology. The thinking that lead to our understanding of natural world is the same type that lead to the industrial revolution. In 1896 Svante Arrhenius predicted that humanities production of c02 could caused global warming and might be a result of the industrial revolution. The 1970s these ideas began to be measured and verified, and now it is near unanimous among scientists that we are indeed messing with systems our of our control (a hard thing to accept for even scientists). Now we are at the point where all industries are entering transitions, the knowledge that fossil fuels are running out is causing shifts in every aspect of life. The result of this will be that industries that fail to evolve to modern solution. For example rising fossil fuel costs will make large scale farming less competitive, simultaneously pesticide use has cause decreasing marginal returns, so companies that do not work with nature and their local environment will be out competed by those who do. It happened in Cuba when the Soviet Union fell.
I think that we will overcome these challenges, because we must to survive, more-so because we never did leave the biological constraints of the world, we just changed the parameters, and that's what evolution is all about anyway.
anyway though.. great video thanks for sharing it.. got my mind turning