Q: What's the moral response to Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies and Smil's Global Catastrophes and Trends?
Q: What's the moral response to Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies and Smil's Global Catastrophes and Trends?
A: Is it something like applying the golden rule to the ecosystem's investment in me? Am I an asset that generates wealth for the ecosystem, or an expense that increases entropy, hastening the eventual heat death of the universe?
Am I doing unto the ecosystem as the ecosystem is doing unto me?
No.
A: Is it something like applying the golden rule to the ecosystem's investment in me? Am I an asset that generates wealth for the ecosystem, or an expense that increases entropy, hastening the eventual heat death of the universe?
Am I doing unto the ecosystem as the ecosystem is doing unto me?
No.
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