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Environment & Energy

The2ndWheel

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4. Short term beats long term

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:54 PM

Jun 2015

Life is a race with no destination. Make all the plans you want 10 years from now, and you still might die in 7.

It's both humans will invent things to get around the limits brought about by larger change, and the limits of the larger changes will bring about human innovation. Like the saying says, you can't win, can't break even, and can't get out of the game. Our activity causes change, and change causes our activity. There's no perfect state we'll get to. There's certainly no steady state. The equation is always changing.

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Here's a good reason why the message of ecological danger isn't being absorbed. [View all] GliderGuider Jun 2015 OP

Sort of off topic, but I couldn't remember my 'type', so I went out and took the test again online Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #1

M-B turns out to be substantially more complex than the 4-letter main type. GliderGuider Jun 2015 #2

The online version I took was one of the free ones, not the $50 'official' one, so I'm sure it Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #3

Short term beats long term The2ndWheel Jun 2015 #4