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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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4. It's less personal than that, even

Reply to Kip Humphrey (Reply #1)

Sun May 1, 2016, 01:39 PM

May 2016

If you follow a root cause analysis of the global predicament all the way down as far as you can go, you will find the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the process of Evolution by Natural Selection operating in an environment that is brimming with resource stocks.

It's hard to punish people for not breaking natural laws...

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Why I hold no one to blame for the planetary predicament [View all] GliderGuider May 2016 OP

It's our bacterial and fungal overlords, I tell you! Kip Humphrey May 2016 #1

It's less personal than that, even GliderGuider May 2016 #4

So Miley WAS right pscot May 2016 #5

Pretty thin evidence. GeorgeGist May 2016 #2

From Hitchens: "Do we have free will?" — "We Have no choice!" immoderate May 2016 #3

I have no choice but to blame people. Duppers May 2016 #6

!!! GliderGuider May 2016 #7

keep making them cute lil'babies. sylvanus May 2016 #8