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Originally posted by soficrow
We have changed our external and internal/cellular environments radically. So much so, that we need to adapt and evolve or we we won't survive in our "new" world.
...How can you tell who carries the appropriate adaptations and mutations needed for species survival?
BTW - "Survival of the Fittest" doesn't wash. The rules have changed.
Originally posted by OrderOfTheDragon
Do you want a species of genetic dead ends, idiots, and physically incapable individuals or one with genetically fit, intelligent, healthy individuals? We should be looking out for, and advancing the collective, by removing the "chinks in the armor", instead of supporting them and unnaturally elevating their status.
Originally posted by OrderOfTheDragon
Originally posted by soficrow
We have changed our external and internal/cellular environments radically. So much so, that we need to adapt and evolve or we we won't survive in our "new" world.
...How can you tell who carries the appropriate adaptations and mutations needed for species survival?
BTW - "Survival of the Fittest" doesn't wash. The rules have changed.
We have changed (mainly in the areas of consciousness) but to assume we have somehow transcended natural biology is absurd.
Originally posted by concernedcitizan
reply to post by soficrow
As a result of the rise of humanism beginning in the Enlightenment, each human life has become viewed as something sacred that must ultimately be preserved at all costs.
Billions of people flood the planet and consume all they can, yet contribute little to society.
Abstractions that hold absolutely no basis in the world outside our minds such as 'freedom' and 'progress' provide the ultimate foundation of society, serving as a justification for nearly unrestricted breeding and rampant devastation.
Thousands of species have been wiped out, the concrete desert expands across the earth,
and yet people imagine that switching to 'green' products will fix all our environmental problems.
Linkola presents a harsh yet very real existence that will not continue to accommodate for our refusal to acknowledge it.
Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (born December 7, 1932 in Helsinki) is a radical Finnish deep ecologist[1], dissident, and fisherman[2]. He has written widely about his ideas and is a prominent thinker in Finland.[3][4] He lives a simple and austere life. He currently receives an old-age government pension, but he still fishes on Lake Vanajavesi.
Linkola blames humans for the continuous degradation of the environment. He promotes rapid population decline[5] in order to combat the problems commonly attributed to overpopulation. He is also strongly in favour of deindustrialization and opposes democracy for being an agent of wasteful capitalism and consumerism. He considers the proponents of economic growth to be ignorant of the subtle destructive effects which free market policies have had over the past two centuries.
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