Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters: Crash Course Big History #203
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Luboman411
Yeah, we're disastrous and dumb, like a huge asteroid. An individual human is pretty smart, capable and alert, able to course-correct quickly for the most part when things go wrong. 7. 5 billion of us together, however, are a huge and brutish natural disaster, blindly destroying everything in our path. Even when we gather in a crowd of hundreds or thousands we are a huge danger--terrifying, bestial stampedes of humans have been known to kill hundreds or thousands of other humans by crushing them underfoot. It happened a lot in history. We are locusts, we are a plague, when we gather together in huge numbers.
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Yeah, we're disastrous and dumb, like a huge asteroid. An individual human is pretty smart, capable and alert, able to course-correct quickly for the most part when things go wrong. 7. 5 billion of us together, however, are a huge and brutish natural disaster, blindly destroying everything in our path. Even when we gather in a crowd of hundreds or thousands we are a huge danger--terrifying, bestial stampedes of humans have been known to kill hundreds or thousands of other humans by crushing them underfoot. It happened a lot in history. We are locusts, we are a plague, when we gather together in huge numbers.
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Thom
We have known for a decade how to drop the average temperature a full degree for about $3 million a year. Why don't we do it? Because the people driving the climate change agenda know that their computer models are completely unreliable, and just dropping the temperature could lead to even bigger disasters. They are using the fear of disaster to promote their positions in government. Yes, something bad is coming, but I don't want to face it by blindly following ideologues who are promoting what they know is unreliable projections for political gain.
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We have known for a decade how to drop the average temperature a full degree for about $3 million a year. Why don't we do it? Because the people driving the climate change agenda know that their computer models are completely unreliable, and just dropping the temperature could lead to even bigger disasters. They are using the fear of disaster to promote their positions in government. Yes, something bad is coming, but I don't want to face it by blindly following ideologues who are promoting what they know is unreliable projections for political gain.
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Lupus
more recent studies suggested we're gonna have a full 7 degree increase by the end of the century. soo I guess we're gonna make it to number 1 as far as major extinction events go. I hope the next sapient species to arise has tougher feet. I want scales in my next life. scales, ability to switch from endothermic to exothermic, and a nice strong and flexible tail I can hang from trees with. Or just the ability to shapeshift and modify my own physiology to my own specifications that'd work too, though I suspect it would take me a while to master.
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more recent studies suggested we're gonna have a full 7 degree increase by the end of the century. soo I guess we're gonna make it to number 1 as far as major extinction events go. I hope the next sapient species to arise has tougher feet. I want scales in my next life. scales, ability to switch from endothermic to exothermic, and a nice strong and flexible tail I can hang from trees with. Or just the ability to shapeshift and modify my own physiology to my own specifications that'd work too, though I suspect it would take me a while to master.
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Steve
You had me up to -The Sky is Falling-. No doubt human population explosion will destroy ecosystems. The big trick is a solution that isn't monstrous itself. There are no humane solutions that are effective. Self discipline is not a strong human trait. Laws will be ineffective if not cruel in enforcement (something like an environmental North Korea. This is a killer asteroid we will not avoid. We will spend billions on stopping a rock falling from the sky. What about the ones we face in the mirror every day.
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You had me up to -The Sky is Falling-. No doubt human population explosion will destroy ecosystems. The big trick is a solution that isn't monstrous itself. There are no humane solutions that are effective. Self discipline is not a strong human trait. Laws will be ineffective if not cruel in enforcement (something like an environmental North Korea. This is a killer asteroid we will not avoid. We will spend billions on stopping a rock falling from the sky. What about the ones we face in the mirror every day.
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rAyZoR
What if the next bottleneck 4life is actually ourselves. Were the first lifeforms2 recognise the damage were doin 2our planet yet we do litle 2stop it, wot ifwe just carryon until we find out 2late that climatechange has a snowball effect un, Bam, mass extinction event, ifwe dont survive thats cos nature realised brains wasnt realy the winning formula as we saw r demise but didnt stop it. .Cud ublame nature 4that assumption, so humans unbig brains dont make it thru this bottleneck. Homoextinctus. lol
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What if the next bottleneck 4life is actually ourselves. Were the first lifeforms2 recognise the damage were doin 2our planet yet we do litle 2stop it, wot ifwe just carryon until we find out 2late that climatechange has a snowball effect un, Bam, mass extinction event, ifwe dont survive thats cos nature realised brains wasnt realy the winning formula as we saw r demise but didnt stop it. .Cud ublame nature 4that assumption, so humans unbig brains dont make it thru this bottleneck. Homoextinctus. lol
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Luboman411
Though I tend to be philosophical about it--if we destroy the Earth at a rate like the Precambrian extinction event, that still leaves 5% of species alive. And those will be the cows, cats, dogs, rats, pigeons, chickens, raccoons, pigs, ducks, geese, oxen, and other species that humber in their billions. A few thousands of those animals are bound to survive and then radiate outward in an evolutionary explosion once we kill ourselves off. To quote Jurassic Park, -Life finds a way. -
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Though I tend to be philosophical about it--if we destroy the Earth at a rate like the Precambrian extinction event, that still leaves 5% of species alive. And those will be the cows, cats, dogs, rats, pigeons, chickens, raccoons, pigs, ducks, geese, oxen, and other species that humber in their billions. A few thousands of those animals are bound to survive and then radiate outward in an evolutionary explosion once we kill ourselves off. To quote Jurassic Park, -Life finds a way. -
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rAyZoR
kids have the best answers, Why dont we just put the airconditioner outside, if every1 dun that then itwud stop the Earth heating up And no1 wud need airconditioning indoors anymore cos itwill be to cold to need them, And 2think even if it were that simple istil dont think enough peeps would be willing to do it or is my view of humanity underated cos i really hope it is.
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kids have the best answers, Why dont we just put the airconditioner outside, if every1 dun that then itwud stop the Earth heating up And no1 wud need airconditioning indoors anymore cos itwill be to cold to need them, And 2think even if it were that simple istil dont think enough peeps would be willing to do it or is my view of humanity underated cos i really hope it is.
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education
Finally, a episode who blames humans for being assholes and killing all of the beautifull mega fauna animals.
And yes, we can blame old humans, African tribes and Indians (to a great degree at least) were able to preserve the megafauna from extinction.
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Finally, a episode who blames humans for being assholes and killing all of the beautifull mega fauna animals.
And yes, we can blame old humans, African tribes and Indians (to a great degree at least) were able to preserve the megafauna from extinction.
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Greg
All this Carbon talk about 2, 4, 6 degrees increasing. What differance will it make when in 500 million years or so, the sun will expand and swallow the earth. It won't matter how many Polar bears you save today when the planet itself was doomed to began with.
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All this Carbon talk about 2, 4, 6 degrees increasing. What differance will it make when in 500 million years or so, the sun will expand and swallow the earth. It won't matter how many Polar bears you save today when the planet itself was doomed to began with.
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Marietou
To those who do or don't believe that humans are the cause of climate change. Even if we are not the cause it will happen, that is not disputed. We should be raising animals and people to be ready for the worst if we desire human resilience.
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To those who do or don't believe that humans are the cause of climate change. Even if we are not the cause it will happen, that is not disputed. We should be raising animals and people to be ready for the worst if we desire human resilience.
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