Comments on: The dynamism of nature http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/the-dynamism-of-nature/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Matan Shenhav http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/the-dynamism-of-nature/#comment-21672 Matan Shenhav Tue, 04 May 2010 17:26:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=3976#comment-21672 Cool model... except that if you consider the fastest factor of enviromental change to be us humans then linear change just won't cut it. I mean, this adaptation stuff works both ways... actually it is exceedingly fast adaptation that gives us our smug sense of superiority. That aside, even with this linear approximation, this critical threshold value is certainly useful. Taking cultural and techological adaptation into acount (which include conservation efforts) means accepting society as coevolving with the ecology... actually I think the notion we are seperate from ecology in any sense is silly. The word artificial should be banned. I hope people keep going in this direction so one day we can see that economy and ecology are one. Cool model… except that if you consider the fastest factor of enviromental change to be us humans then linear change just won’t cut it. I mean, this adaptation stuff works both ways… actually it is exceedingly fast adaptation that gives us our smug sense of superiority.

That aside, even with this linear approximation, this critical threshold value is certainly useful.

Taking cultural and techological adaptation into acount (which include conservation efforts) means accepting society as coevolving with the ecology… actually I think the notion we are seperate from ecology in any sense is silly. The word artificial should be banned.

I hope people keep going in this direction so one day we can see that economy and ecology are one.

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