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NeedMoreTea
on Feb 22, 2019
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We Are Living in the Anthropocene
What humans do stops being natural when it is no longer person-power but powered machines. That gives huge amounts of leverage.
You would consider a car, or a chainsaw natural? I wouldn't.
x3n0ph3n3
on Feb 22, 2019
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Some of us believe that artificial is merely of a subset of natural and saying that they are disjoint is a kind of naturalistic fallacy.
ianai
on Feb 22, 2019
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Humans can light the earth on fire with thousands of nuclear explosions. Almost nothing would survive. I’d say we’re well past natural. But your ways less extreme.
jedmeyers
on Feb 23, 2019
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A long long time ago some organisms “polluted” the athmosphere with oxygen. It wasn’t a natural event in your opinion?
x3n0ph3n3
on Feb 22, 2019
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An asteroid can hit the earth and do the same thing. Is it not natural either?
User23
on Feb 23, 2019
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And cyanobacteria transformed the entire atmosphere, to such a degree that almost everything else died out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
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You would consider a car, or a chainsaw natural? I wouldn't.