Song Jiyoung
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rightly. We finally see blue sky and fish returning to rivers. The nature is balancing out and self-organising while telling us, humans, that we’re part of the whole ecological system on earth with finite resources. My thoughts are immature and my words are rough, all rumbled in my head. We’ll soon have to test the extent of humanity: how many human lives can we save? How long can we stop the virus? Here is the job for arts, humanities and social scientists: posthumanism in the Anthropocene. Crazy evening thought.
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Leonid Petrov I thought about the same today.
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Joel Ng You heard of Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis?
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Paul Dongwon Goh https://medium.com/.../eight-emerging-lessons-from...
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Eight Emerging Lessons: From Coronavirus to Climate ActionEight Emerging Lessons: From Coronavirus to Climate Action
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Song Jiyoung Paul Dongwon Goh thanks but I don’t like this one very much. I don’t buy anything that lumps up East Asia together as Confucianism, not a good analysis. So pass this one.
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Paul Dongwon Goh https://www.scientificamerican.com/.../destroyed-habitat.../
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Destroyed Habitat Creates the Perfect Conditions for Coronavirus to EmergeDestroyed Habitat Creates the Perfect Conditions for Coronavirus to Emerge
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Paul Dongwon Goh https://theintercept.com/.../16/coronavirus-capitalism/...
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Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat ItCoronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It
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Owen Miller https://theecologist.org/.../virus-haunting-europe-vector...
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A virus is haunting Europe - the vector is capitalismA virus is haunting Europe - the vector is capitalism
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Song Jiyoung Owen Miller this article is so you. Means I liked it 😉 Is there a climate scientist/activist who is not a Marxist/leftist?
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Owen Miller And some more reading:
http://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/
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Social ContagionSocial Contagion
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James Edward Hoare Sounds like the 'God is angry' explanations for the Black Death in the 1340s or the Plague in later centuries....
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Owen Miller Yes, there could be an element of that. But there are also clear connections between ecological problems like habitat loss, monoculture farming, intensive livestock farming and the emergence of novel viruses, some of which go on to become epidemics and even pandemics.
I hope you are well Jim!
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James Edward Hoare Owen. We are OK thanks. But the problem is that all plagues, pandemics etc appear to have come from animals. Not all transmit to humans and nobody seems really to know why some do and some do not. If it is something that has been around for some time, we shrug it off with few losses. If it is a new one, then it takes time to develop some degree of immunity.. There seems to be no one answer.
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Song Jiyoung James Edward Hoare not sure about God. I was looking for systems scientists. Glad to hear you’re well 🙂
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Song Jiyoung James Edward Hoare the loss is too big and too frequent to shrug it off this time it looks.
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Charles Park With about half the global population in lockdown, it is boon for the natural planet, a brief respite from climate change, environmental degredation, and natural habitat loss.
I hope this is a wake up call - not only to be better prepared for pandemics but also the need to act on a global scale against climate change because epidemics are becoming more common as we cut down ever more natural forests for our insatiable appetite for growth.
Hopefully climate change activists seize on the teachable moment and the rest of society become more conscious about earth as a living system and not a inexhaustible and disposable resource.
Attention should also be placed on the evaluation of our economic system that is focused on unbridled growth and mostly only pays lip service to planetary, social, and economic sustainability.
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Song Jiyoung Charles Park it’s good that people now see is, is what Jane Goodall said according to Jaechun Choi, evolutionary biologist in Korea. Leave the nature alone, stop unnecessary travels, and produce less humans?
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Charles Park https://m.facebook.com/story.php...
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