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Yes that's exactly right. Not all invasive species are a result of human fuckery (speaking outside of the scope of this particular article) and is literally natural. Extinction is natural. Ecosystem upheaval is natural. Why is your human ego and feelings for one species important here?
And you don't even understand the irony. Sure on a macro level rock stacking is likely inconsequential most times, but you have no consideration to the micro ecosystems you're upheaving because they're out of sight. How many bacteria have you caused to go extinct? Lmao I don't even care that badly about rock stacking I just thought it was a silly insult.
ok, to clarify arent all species invasive, as they need to compete in new environments as other environment change (cough or humans destroy their habitat by burning black ground juice cough) and become unsuitable?
to me central planning and scientific engagement is key to marxism, besides bourgeois interests being the thing that will find a way to mess this up, i can't think of other major issues... help me out here if ya can comrade? i wouldn't mind some good crit.
I suppose if you magnify it so far, but that's seems semantic ultimately.
Certainly a great deal of damage is the excess and inefficiency of global capitalism. With the tenants of central planning we wouldn't need to exploit nearly as much land and resources if we consumed only as much as necessary. But if growth is an endless goal even under communism, why worry about conserving anything now? At some point growth has to be checked, or nature has to be sacrificed.
There's also an argument to be made of over correcting or too much deliberation. If we're always focused on conserving an ecosystem at a chosen level, won't it ultimately stagnate? At what point does the Earth just become a global zoo? When do we pull back and allow systems to change like they always have?
yeah i dont really know... was thinking outlou. appreciate your comments cde!
don't appreciate her comments, they're stupid as fuck
Hm what do you mean? I think I missed something, I read it as a general expression (the universal as marx & aristotle puts it) rather than the specific...
Was there another comment or thread I missed? I'm confused bcuz I'm not sure which part is 'stupid'
girl what in gods fucking name are you talking about we've been cultivating the land around us since we were fucking nomads
As well humans aren't special in the fact that there are apparent macro-changes to our environment. I heard a notable marxist biologist, Richard C. Lewton state that beavers have made more of am impact on the geography and environmental conditions of north america than humans. It was a bit shocking to hear that, but it made sense to me after I thought about it.
I think partially the difference in my understanding and the other commentator's is I don't place the effect of humans to be meaningful in any special way as compared to other mechanisms of changing the environment and climate.
That is, besides our relation to climate change as being a consequence of human activity at a certain stage of development (I mean the base and superstructure here) it need not and indeed is less effective to add qualitative distinctions like "humans are worse" and "we have a responsibility".
Responsibility, yes, and humans are adapting to climate change. Instead of direct-human activity there could have hypothetically been a solar flare from our sun of a particular kind, or gamma ray burst from a nearby dying star which causes a large volcanic erruption such as the kind during the precambian extinction (wiki link) and wiped out human technological development in say the 1800s before major global industrialization began...
We'd still have to deal with it, the why matters insofar as it relates to addressing the problem.
Literally none.
Maybe a few dozen for me? I think there were some novel mutations in my petri dish in my microbiology lab. I think because I accidentally mixed two different cultures and didn't get a new q-tip. My culture looked way different than my benchmates.
I didn't tell the TAs and it was graded on participation (we were learning how to swab petri dishes).
If you consider strains of as bacteria then yeah I am unfortunately guilty in the name of science... But I'm no graverobber like the relatively (in terms of the profession of healing, as physician was the prior term of art) new 'medical doctor' profession.
Also I do it in the pursuit of knowledge (still not ok) which is better than profit (super not ok, full of contradictions)