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"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences must be accelerated for human prosperity and ecology."

https://youtu.be/DTObNR6KWkI

>> No.12952025

It's nice that Ted is being taken as a serious threat by the ambassadors of modernity now. It means it's he's no longer so outside the overton window they can't really comprehend it.

>> No.12952026

if hr's so smart why he not cut stupig hair?

>> No.12952036

>>12952026
Can we get a shoop of Pinker wearing a rainbow wig and a clown nose?

>> No.12952043

Science retards still trying to cope with the fact that STEM doomed us

>> No.12952047

lel, that time Pinker said that cosmopolitanism maximizes human empathy had me crying in a fit of laughter. The guy is the ambassador of clown world.

>> No.12952050

>>12952043
I always liked teds autistic vitriol against "techies" he's not nearly as passionate about hating academics, or larping feel-good hippie environmentalists or whatever.

>> No.12952053

>>12952036
Please.

>> No.12952058
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>>12952026

>> No.12952072
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>>12952020
More impressive computers and data analysis techniques definitely does make ecological work easier. Genome sequencing is really useful for understanding how different eco-zones are set up, how different animals are related, how this could potentially cause things to play out in the future. But at the same time very basic things like roads can cause ecological disasters. For example, Black-capped Vireos are being decimated by Brown-headed Cowbird populations. Brown-headed Cowbirds are brood parasites (like Cuckoo birds). Before humans, Black-capped Vireos has relative protection in the form of deep forest habitat as Cowbirds do best in edge habitats. However forest roads cut scars into deep forest habitats and allow brood parasites to proliferate an a never before seen rate. The solution to this is Wildlife Biologists setting up cages and snapping the necks of female cowbirds. This is very effective and has helped Black-capped Vireos rebound.
>tl;dr: Yes technology is helpful for ecology, but the fact that we're in these areas is what's causing all the problems to begin with

Unfortunately you can't close Pandora's Box, and I'm not even going to touch the issues power brings to the environment.

Also who is this pinker cuck?

>> No.12952087

>>12952072
https://youtu.be/WDG8AojhnVs
We want to save the whales
We'll go watch them feed,
Buzz around them in boats
'Til they won't breed
Just here for the ride
Then we hop with the jet set tonight

Check out them Indians' ancestral art
Some of that would look cute up on our walls
Yeah, suit it just fine
When you hop with the jet set tonight

We'll hire out some poachers to go steel their dolls
Who cares if they're sacred-they look awful cute

National Geographic found a stone age tribe
Let's feed them their first hot dogs on film
Won't that be a prize
To show the jet set tonight

>> No.12952095

Pinker is a billionaire brap fetishist.

>> No.12952108

>talking about climate change
>cites the Thames and London fog

Jesus Christ

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>>12952050
t. oversocialized rebel

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>> No.12952139

>>12952123
I'm not sure what you mean, did you interpret "i've always loved..." as not sincere? That his lack of the same vitriol for other groups he refutes a criticism of his character or arguments against techies?

>> No.12952145

>>12952129
>watch more porn goy it makes your brain evolve

>> No.12952148

>>12952129
>>12952134
It’s just a joke, mon

>> No.12952168

>>12952095
As we used to call him back in the day steven pink eye

>> No.12952371

>>12952134
Is this a joke or not?

>> No.12953459

GARRETT
HARDIN

>> No.12953467

GLOBAL MONGOLISM

>> No.12953469

did the assman read nick land?

>> No.12953504

>>12952025
The more the earth decays the more important he becomes. Ted and land will be two of the most important philosophers of the 21st century. They just arent recognized now because one is a terrorist and the other is an amphetamine addict schizo.

In this post cold war, multicultural world, were there is no longer a linear history and the only thing to expect in the future is more capitalism, It seems there is no longer anything that binds us.

But there is one thing that binds everyone, technology. For better or worse. And land and ted realized that

>> No.12953534

>>12953469
You mean Kramer?

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DUDE JUST TURN YOUR TAP OFF AND RECYCLE
DRIVE LESS BRO TAKE THE BUS

DUDE IGNORE THE CHINKS AND POOS WHO GIVE NO SHITS ABOUT THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL POLLUTION OR CARBON EMISSIONS
DUDE IGNORE THE FACT THAT A HANDFUL OF MEGA FREIGHT SHIPS POLLUTES MORE THAN EVERY CAR ON THE PLANET, I ABSOLUTELY NEED TO GET THESE GUCCI LOAFERS MADE FROM RECYCLED MATERIALS™ OFF AMAZON AND ETSY
DUDE GO VEGAN LMAO DESERTIFICATION FROM INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE TO PRODUCE MY ONIONS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY THAN COW FARTS WE HAVE TO BE MORE LIKE THE AFRICANS IN THE GROWING SAHEL