Professor Thorson. Thank you so so much. I’m a retired paralegal that’s become an amateur geologist. I’m doing a presentation to a group of other hobbiests and community college students on the proposed GSSP at Crawford Lake, Canada. Your presentation will be the last 15 minutes. Thank you
The Green Revolution in farming should now be seen as an indirect nightmare unleashed. The over populations and over use of oil derivatives combined has lead to a full destruction of the balance life demands.
i am a little bit disappointed that in the train of causality it is made to look as if, in the end, it are all natural (and therefore almost unevitable laws) causes, even the human behaviour. To NOT mention capitalism in this train is a denial of an elephant in the room in my opionion. This while the nature of human behaviour is scientifically proven to be almost anything because it is subject to the environment (in this definition i use the environment as that which capitalism is part of). And here, is said near the end, we live in a world of our own making, capitalism is not a natural thing, it is a man-made choice that as a system determines individual's environments as to what choices will come "natural" to them. Please name it: capitalism: the ever accelerating commidifiying of everything.
Our brains don't have the capacity to change enough within the little time span we have to change our ways of working. AI might be helping us out here, but that is still in its infancy. It would have been easier if there hàd been a world dominating government (which is not really the case now). So, the Chinese government using AI, might be our only hope. Makes me very pessimistic about the future.
Our brains may be pretty set (altough a neuroscientist would not agree to this) but our minds are capable of holding very divergent thoughts and even never before thought of thoughts. The imagination horizon is much more limited (or improved) by imposed ruling systems than it is solely in it 's organic base. Putting hope on AI, is the belief we can engineer our way out of this. And while maybe we can, it is not a matter of knowledge or engineering, it is much more a matter of how we look at life and what is important. Individually, we may find things important but yet act out different because we are forced or motivated (how ever you want to call it)to not act in the way we deem better for the long run by the system we thus perpetuate.
@@ayates3899 sure we are currently in the Holocene epoch it has lasted 12,000 years so far the Holocene epoch is part of the Quaternary period, or ice age which has lasted 2.6 million years so far why is the Anthropocene epoch a bad idea? first, you must ask yourself why there is a Holocene epoch isn’t the Holocene epoch merely the latest interglacial of the Pleistocene epoch? why wasn’t the previous interglacial, the Eemian, an epoch? or the last glaciation? (the Wisconsinin) the reason is man’s impact upon the environment the Holocene is an epoch because of man’s impact upon the environment but, that’s why Warming Alarmists want to create an Anthropocene epoch but, they don’t realize that it’s already been done a good idea would be to simply rename the Holocene epoch as the Anthropocene it’s a much better name a bad idea is to split the Holocene into Holocene/Anthropocene which is what the Warming Alarmists want to do
Professor Thorson. Thank you so so much. I’m a retired paralegal that’s become an amateur geologist. I’m doing a presentation to a group of other hobbiests and community college students on the proposed GSSP at Crawford Lake, Canada. Your presentation will be the last 15 minutes. Thank you
Stunning talk. Thank you for sharing your perspective thoughts and lessons.
The Green Revolution in farming should now be seen as an indirect nightmare unleashed. The over populations and over use of oil derivatives combined has lead to a full destruction of the balance life demands.
very well said
i am a little bit disappointed that in the train of causality it is made to look as if, in the end, it are all natural (and therefore almost unevitable laws) causes, even the human behaviour. To NOT mention capitalism in this train is a denial of an elephant in the room in my opionion. This while the nature of human behaviour is scientifically proven to be almost anything because it is subject to the environment (in this definition i use the environment as that which capitalism is part of). And here, is said near the end, we live in a world of our own making, capitalism is not a natural thing, it is a man-made choice that as a system determines individual's environments as to what choices will come "natural" to them.
Please name it: capitalism: the ever accelerating commidifiying of everything.
Agreed. Capitalism is still a sacred cow to so many people, especially the affluent types who feature in most TED-X videos.
Yes, the C word is still taboo.
Our brains don't have the capacity to change enough within the little time span we have to change our ways of working. AI might be helping us out here, but that is still in its infancy. It would have been easier if there hàd been a world dominating government (which is not really the case now). So, the Chinese government using AI, might be our only hope. Makes me very pessimistic about the future.
Our brains may be pretty set (altough a neuroscientist would not agree to this) but our minds are capable of holding very divergent thoughts and even never before thought of thoughts. The imagination horizon is much more limited (or improved) by imposed ruling systems than it is solely in it 's organic base.
Putting hope on AI, is the belief we can engineer our way out of this. And while maybe we can, it is not a matter of knowledge or engineering, it is much more a matter of how we look at life and what is important.
Individually, we may find things important but yet act out different because we are forced or motivated (how ever you want to call it)to not act in the way we deem better for the long run by the system we thus perpetuate.
Wow, thank you. When you put it that way, extinction sounds way preferable.
If you teach this, why do you believe we have a future, after the methane bomb?
Isn’t it interesting how we define intelligence?
there is no Anthropocene epoch
it’s a bad idea, by people who don’t understand the geologic timeline
can you elaborate? I am trying to learn about this topic from both sides
@@ayates3899
sure
we are currently in the Holocene epoch
it has lasted 12,000 years
so far
the Holocene epoch is part of the Quaternary period, or ice age
which has lasted 2.6 million years
so far
why is the Anthropocene epoch a bad idea?
first, you must ask yourself why there is a Holocene epoch
isn’t the Holocene epoch merely the latest interglacial of the Pleistocene epoch?
why wasn’t the previous interglacial, the Eemian, an epoch?
or the last glaciation? (the Wisconsinin)
the reason is man’s impact upon the environment
the Holocene is an epoch because of man’s impact upon the environment
but, that’s why Warming Alarmists want to create an Anthropocene epoch
but, they don’t realize that it’s already been done
a good idea would be to simply rename the Holocene epoch as the Anthropocene
it’s a much better name
a bad idea is to split the Holocene into Holocene/Anthropocene
which is what the Warming Alarmists want to do