Massimo Pigliucci - Philosophy of Ecology & the Environment
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Ecology, environmental protection, and dealing with climate change are among humanity’s most serious problems. Can a philosophical perspective clarify old issues and suggest new solutions?
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Massimo Pigliucci is an Italian-American philosopher and biologist who is professor of philosophy at the City College of New York. He is a critic of pseudoscience and creationism, and an advocate for secularism and science education.
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Concise wisdom on a complex subject in seven minutes. Bravo.
I'd like to hear more from Massimo. I'm impressed with his clarity.
He used to host a great podcast called Rationally speaking
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I can’t believe you got Walter White on the show!
Hey everyone, we got a real comedian over here
Unfortunately we’re trapped on “go” on this subject. Ecology that doesn’t include humans and our impacts is grotesquely incomplete. Similarly, economics without ecology if fatally flawed. Until we remedy this problem with ecology and economics there is nothing practical that can be said or done… except prepping, lol 😰
Science fiction and Gross Capitalism has brain washed people in believing that humans are independent from the Earth/biome/ other species and can just go out and conquer space and other planets…
Humans are not individuals…. Humans are a entire ecosystem And Absolutely need each other and other organisms to live..
>"Ecology that doesn’t include humans and our impacts is grotesquely incomplete."
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. We often talk about ecological biomes free of human interference as 'pristine' or 'virgin', and great them as high value rather than grotesque.
@@simonhibbs887 What I mean is academia isn’t doing their job sounding the alarm
You really should have John Vervaeke on.
1:43 usually the choices are made in relation to the most immediate consequences... i.e. the patient requires life support to survive the treatment... or life requires oxygen in the atmosphere and if all the oxygen is traped with other elements such as carbon or even worse pulled out of the atmosphere, for whatever purpose that is, at higher rates that it is usually regenerated then is the same as shutting off the life support from your patients while perfectly understanding the consequence of your most immediate action...
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Two major misconceptions about the universe:🌋🧟🦍
1) The universe went from hot to cold. ---- The real history is that the universe went from cold to hot, and so did the sun and the earth. Cosmic information is lost when it's burned, such as supernova.
2) Life on Earth is continuous. ---- The fact is that life on Earth is not continuous, there have been dozens of batches. Life on Earth today is less than 10,000 years old and grew out of seeds.
Are seeds not alive? Where did they come from? How do people grow out of seeds?
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There is a black ball in the center of the earth. The seeds came from the black ball.
In the future, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune will also nurture life. Mercury also nurtured life before Earth.
We do not own the planet as much as some today might think... no generation before or after as well. Treat the planet as you would want it given to you as someone born tomorrow and let the natural effects of evolution be the worries of those not born yet - and not something unnaturally disrupted from what many think is best human beings can do currently...
Even school children may have better solutions for environmental problems than Massimo....🎉
Lol
>"Without human beings there is no concept of value"
It depends what he means by value, but evolution does impose a value system on organisms. A given resource or behaviour is more or less beneficial for survival in a situation than another, and different situations can impose different relative values. Arguably human value systems are simply the result of these evolutionary factors shaping our biology and social behaviour, and these value systems existed in our evolutionary past before we became consciously aware of them. After all if we had evolved from black widow spiders, a wife killing her husband after mating would be necessary behaviour.
What a joke, Mother Nature will do what ever it wants.