We're movers. We rearrange the environment, like elephants, but we do it on a much vaster scale and intelligently, i.e we can analyse and plan what we do. We can make large scale changes far faster than 'natural' process do.
The problem is, we've lost the notion of stewardship and use our abilities to exploit the natural for our own selfish gain instead. No, actually that's not quite right... a few greedy people make others exploit the natural world for their selfish gain.
Cancer cells will often co-opt other normal cells to feed them. Like a tumour forcing healthy vascular tissue to grow more blood vessels by hijacking the hormonal signalling, thus feeding the tumour.
Gaia is working to try and deal with the problem, that's what climate change is. But we work on decades or at most century long time scales, and Gaia's response are on the millennial or epoch scale.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2024-09-15 07:54 pm (UTC)We're movers. We rearrange the environment, like elephants, but we do it on a much vaster scale and intelligently, i.e we can analyse and plan what we do. We can make large scale changes far faster than 'natural' process do.
The problem is, we've lost the notion of stewardship and use our abilities to exploit the natural for our own selfish gain instead. No, actually that's not quite right... a few greedy people make others exploit the natural world for their selfish gain.
Cancer cells will often co-opt other normal cells to feed them. Like a tumour forcing healthy vascular tissue to grow more blood vessels by hijacking the hormonal signalling, thus feeding the tumour.
Gaia is working to try and deal with the problem, that's what climate change is. But we work on decades or at most century long time scales, and Gaia's response are on the millennial or epoch scale.
We're way too fast growing for her to cope.