I used to teach natural law, still do, sort of, at VassarBushmills.com, and found that the old axiom "God created Man and Colt made them equal" to be a key factor to Man's fitness for survival.
When confronted with complex issues and questions, I usually look about for a safe haven of context for the problem at hand. This response weakness of mine is totally manifested in the myriad of complex issues and questions regarding climate change.
If I place myself into the context of living in a cave of survival with other early humans I am joyous with the taming of fire and the immediate benefits that fire will bring to our cave's collective hygiene by our consuming of cooked, rather than raw, meat and our collective improvement in wellbeing brought forth by an enhanced, albeit artificial, thermal environment where we can survive inside our cave independent of the thermal environment outside the cave so long as we have access to adequate combustible materials.
However, my joy at this is without context in that, as an early human, I have no idea how big the world outside my cave really is and, as such, I have no sense of scope and scale for the impact of my burning tree limbs or handfuls of dried marsh peat to keep our environment viable and survivable.
At what time did the intersection of the abscissa and ordinate of survival needs of mankind against the capacity of the earth to support same arrive and take place.
Borrowing from the Watergate era, "what did we know and when did we know it?".
We had no context going into this paradigm but we will certainly require context to exit same.
I used to teach natural law, still do, sort of, at VassarBushmills.com, and found that the old axiom "God created Man and Colt made them equal" to be a key factor to Man's fitness for survival.
When confronted with complex issues and questions, I usually look about for a safe haven of context for the problem at hand. This response weakness of mine is totally manifested in the myriad of complex issues and questions regarding climate change.
If I place myself into the context of living in a cave of survival with other early humans I am joyous with the taming of fire and the immediate benefits that fire will bring to our cave's collective hygiene by our consuming of cooked, rather than raw, meat and our collective improvement in wellbeing brought forth by an enhanced, albeit artificial, thermal environment where we can survive inside our cave independent of the thermal environment outside the cave so long as we have access to adequate combustible materials.
However, my joy at this is without context in that, as an early human, I have no idea how big the world outside my cave really is and, as such, I have no sense of scope and scale for the impact of my burning tree limbs or handfuls of dried marsh peat to keep our environment viable and survivable.
At what time did the intersection of the abscissa and ordinate of survival needs of mankind against the capacity of the earth to support same arrive and take place.
Borrowing from the Watergate era, "what did we know and when did we know it?".
We had no context going into this paradigm but we will certainly require context to exit same.
That was nice of you
if we stick to substantive points and rejoinders, we could have a conversation