Comments on: Pieces of G8 – Climate Change http://thethirdestate.net/2009/07/pieces-of-g8-climate-change/ What Is The Third Estate? Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Sarah http://thethirdestate.net/2009/07/pieces-of-g8-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-3381 Sarah Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:10:44 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=1061#comment-3381 Nothing biological can lose the ability to adapt -- it's an inevitability if nature prescribes it. Equally, evolution cannot be driven directly by psychological or social focus. At any rate -- I quite like my existence and consequently feel we need to bar the fuck up I am to continue to enjoy it. Nothing biological can lose the ability to adapt — it’s an inevitability if nature prescribes it. Equally, evolution cannot be driven directly by psychological or social focus.

At any rate — I quite like my existence and consequently feel we need to bar the fuck up I am to continue to enjoy it.

]]> By: Megan http://thethirdestate.net/2009/07/pieces-of-g8-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2194 Megan Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:16:02 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=1061#comment-2194 Ok, ok....I'll admit my comment was fairly misanthropic but can you blame me? I really do beleive that environmental destruction IS a reflection of human character. Human being are essentially greedy and selfish. It is, quite literally, in our genes. Perhaps if we weren't so busy worrying how we were going to finance our next iPod our selfish genes might actually have evolved to adapt to the changing economic climate (as well as the environmental...). Unfortunately as a species we are too intelligent for our own good. We do far to much sitting around thinking than getting on with survival and have completely lost the ability to adapt. But, so what...species die out and other ones evolve all the time. And by time I'm talking the more environmentally relevant timescale of millennia. Dispite all our pretensions we are nothing more than dinosaurs with the ability to become masters of our own destruction. Ok, ok….I’ll admit my comment was fairly misanthropic but can you blame me? I really do beleive that environmental destruction IS a reflection of human character. Human being are essentially greedy and selfish. It is, quite literally, in our genes. Perhaps if we weren’t so busy worrying how we were going to finance our next iPod our selfish genes might actually have evolved to adapt to the changing economic climate (as well as the environmental…). Unfortunately as a species we are too intelligent for our own good. We do far to much sitting around thinking than getting on with survival and have completely lost the ability to adapt. But, so what…species die out and other ones evolve all the time. And by time I’m talking the more environmentally relevant timescale of millennia. Dispite all our pretensions we are nothing more than dinosaurs with the ability to become masters of our own destruction.

]]> By: Reuben http://thethirdestate.net/2009/07/pieces-of-g8-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2125 Reuben Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:44:35 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=1061#comment-2125 Moreover, treating environmental destruction as a reflection upon the general human character completely ignores the distribution of social and political power, and the systematic circumstances within which humans act. Moreover, treating environmental destruction as a reflection upon the general human character completely ignores the distribution of social and political power, and the systematic circumstances within which humans act.

]]> By: Salman Shaheen http://thethirdestate.net/2009/07/pieces-of-g8-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2121 Salman Shaheen Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:37:25 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=1061#comment-2121 That's not a prospect I'm really looking forward to Megan. My environmentalism does not stem simply from human utility. But nor is it based purely on the good of the planet for the planet's sake alone. People can be very stupid. But I happen to like the human race. I have a vested interest in its survival. That’s not a prospect I’m really looking forward to Megan. My environmentalism does not stem simply from human utility. But nor is it based purely on the good of the planet for the planet’s sake alone. People can be very stupid. But I happen to like the human race. I have a vested interest in its survival.

]]> By: Reuben http://thethirdestate.net/2009/07/pieces-of-g8-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2120 Reuben Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:35:55 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=1061#comment-2120 I guess it's inevitable that a post concerning the environment would eventually attract some bloody misanthrope. I guess it’s inevitable that a post concerning the environment would eventually attract some bloody misanthrope.

]]> By: Megan http://thethirdestate.net/2009/07/pieces-of-g8-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2119 Megan Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:32:54 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=1061#comment-2119 Even though I agree that the World leaders have approached the issue of climate change in the most ludicrously lacksidasical fashion imaginable I can't help but think that the sooner the human race gets wiped out the better. Then the planet just carry on doing what it's done for the last few millenium without interruption. Even though I agree that the World leaders have approached the issue of climate change in the most ludicrously lacksidasical fashion imaginable I can’t help but think that the sooner the human race gets wiped out the better. Then the planet just carry on doing what it’s done for the last few millenium without interruption.

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