I have an idea to protect the Arctic ice from melting

I certainly agree with that. They would willingly wreck their home planet for the sake of their bloody isms. In light of the President of Mexico this week calling on the Vatican to apologise for its having sponsored the Cortesian annihilation of the Aztecs civilisation, I really wonder if colonisation has ever really achieved anything positive at all.

I can't really see much future at all for manned spaceflight. Colonisers of Mars, for instance would probably end up with horrendous schizophrenia problems. Although it is possible that if they stayed put, they would still suffer the same here from an increasingly toxic planet; along with the vast majority of the rest of us who can't afford to live anywhere else. Indeed, could this already runaway global tendency be at least part of the reason why we are now hovering around 1 in 68?

As regards wildfires, they suggest that the original indigenous populations were at least in some sort of equilibrium with the places where they live. We would be well-advised to return to some of the more traditional land management practices. Fire was always part of the cycle in such areas; but fires are now worse because we have abandoned  the flexible way of life that formerly prevailed in areas where fire was formerly a means of environmental regeneration.

I would say that we have long been engaged in terraforming the Earth, and it has long been disastrous. Australia, for just one instance, has a very long history of introducing outside species in a totally uncontrolled way, and suffering from them immensely in the long run. The current system of outback agriculture is a lot more precarious (and uneconomic) than most people realise.

i think I have just re-reminded myself why I am in favour of people acknowledging they are on the spectrum. It's, I believe, a necessary first step towards at least making some sort of effort towards living a more sensible life. The alternative is to continue propping up this house of cards! Can't claim to be very optimistic, though!

I certainly agree with that. They would willingly wreck their home planet for the sake of their bloody isms. In light of the President of Mexico this week calling on the Vatican to apologise for its having sponsored the Cortesian annihilation of the Aztecs civilisation, I really wonder if colonisation has ever really achieved anything positive at all.

I can't really see much future at all for manned spaceflight. Colonisers of Mars, for instance would probably end up with horrendous schizophrenia problems. Although it is possible that if they stayed put, they would still suffer the same here from an increasingly toxic planet; along with the vast majority of the rest of us who can't afford to live anywhere else. Indeed, could this already runaway global tendency be at least part of the reason why we are now hovering around 1 in 68?

As regards wildfires, they suggest that the original indigenous populations were at least in some sort of equilibrium with the places where they live. We would be well-advised to return to some of the more traditional land management practices. Fire was always part of the cycle in such areas; but fires are now worse because we have abandoned  the flexible way of life that formerly prevailed in areas where fire was formerly a means of environmental regeneration.

I would say that we have long been engaged in terraforming the Earth, and it has long been disastrous. Australia, for just one instance, has a very long history of introducing outside species in a totally uncontrolled way, and suffering from them immensely in the long run. The current system of outback agriculture is a lot more precarious (and uneconomic) than most people realise.

i think I have just re-reminded myself why I am in favour of people acknowledging they are on the spectrum. It's, I believe, a necessary first step towards at least making some sort of effort towards living a more sensible life. The alternative is to continue propping up this house of cards! Can't claim to be very optimistic, though!

When you use the word Cartesian is that in the philosophical sense? Are you saying that the Spaniards colonised Mexico in a way that was justified through a theory rather than through practical sensibility?