#egocentrism
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Even if we “Thanes Snapped” Trump and his Minions from existence, without a change in values, someone just like him will inevitably reemerge as a product of our quasi-religious faith in Social Darwinist Neoliberalism because he is the inevitable consequence of these beliefs, not the cause of our immiseration.
It Makes a Kind of Sense • The Trump Tariff Tier List
#vLogBrothers #HankGreen #Economics #Corruption #Egocentrism #MafiaEconomics #MafiaGovernment #Trump #TrumpRegime #Project2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JuuGjRhSYE
I consider the #Vedanta #worldview to be a prerequisite for a #sustainable future for the West. Why? Our worldview led us inevitably to #materialism. As a side dish, we got #egocentrism and #selfishness. The result was ruthlessness in the expansion of the economy, in the #exploitation of nature for our selfish purposes. The root of our current problems lies in our thinking: in our worldview and our view of #humanity.
"Ecosystem services" for all living beings
"Solving our current ecological and social crises requires a radical transformation of humanity's relationship to the global ecosystems that sustain all life."
At present there is government paralysis and "we keep voting in people who are OK with prolonging the use of fossil fuels, the very thing that is cooking our planet".
We have an egocentric approach to nature, despite knowing that without the environment, there's no economy.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-12/albanese-government-fed-budget-scientists-warn-climate-change/103834644
"Nature does not revolve around humans any more than the sun revolves around the Earth...Ecosystem services are co-created by all species; humans must stop free-riding."
"We redefine ecosystem services as nature’s benefits to the biotic community of which humans are a part...The Ecozoic is defined as an era characterized by the mutual flourishing of humans and the rest of Nature.
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Rethinking ecosystem services from the anthropocene to the Ecozoic: Nature’s benefits to the biotic community
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212041624000305?dgcid=coauthor
Ecosystem Services Key concepts and applications, au gov
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https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ecosystem-services.pdf
#nature #EcosystemServices #egocentrism #Australia #resources #anthropocentrism #biodiversity #conservation #ecosystems #Ecozoic #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis
> So the people living in these remote areas are going to have to adapt.
#Translation: anyone whose situation is #different from mine or what I am familiar with doesn't matter, so we don't care about how anything #affects them.
Good to know. There's a reason that most of the rest of the #population hates the "big thinkers" from the large urban areas.
Last post - and last Thought For The Day:
The moment you take in a cat, you are no longer the most egocentric being in the house...
... which took me some getting used to.
**How #Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot #Misinformation**
[https://archive.ph/LNpan#selection-451.272-451.286](https://archive.ph/LNpan#selection-451.272-451.286)
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*Rambling: I strongly favor the approach of teaching critical thinking and media #literacy in contrast to #censorship and #regulation of #freespeech #freepress and #firstammendment — It's very important as #parents and #educators of all types to support open #information (yes, even nonsense, #fantasy, #propaganda, etc.) I do realize that #fakenews and #deepfakes have more #power of #influence than ever. However, #bookbanning, censoring and #control is not the answer. (It also inspires defensive resistance and motivates persistence of the deception worth culling.) Once upon a time, public discourse and debate was normal. I'm not sure if it's that we're too lazy, too busy, or don't care. But it seems more today that it's "Cooler" to erase #history or selectively ignore things that are uncomfortable. I also realize that people are afraid for the neglected and uneducated children of the world who lack #education and parental oversight being wrangled into #dangerous activity. Rather than impose our views and overstep jurisdictional, parenthood, and personal #boundaries (which are healthy to promote in general) in order to control others, gain false sense of security and 'save the world' (which is vainly imperious, imo- but that's another topic). It better serves the world (in my opinion) to teach critical thinking and how to learn, not just what to learn and whom to trust (which in itself, could suffer from appeal to authority: a fallacy.) Even formal #academia is congested with #egocentrism and rigid near #religious #beliefs in dogmas. (I, in part, blame this on the modern science distain of #philosophy- another aside for another day.) I remember when school taught that the tongue had different taste zones as if it were law. My point being that honest #science is open to correction. There are many things that even #Einstein thought to be **impossible** that we know are not. With the tenacity of the internet and the dawn of more powerful #AI, what the world may need more of is a revival of the lost #art of fearless skepticism.*