Philosophy Wire: Surviving… (On a desk?)

For species to survive in the wild, maintaining connectivity between populations is critical. Without 'wildlife corridors', groups of animals are isolated and may die out. In assessing wildlife connectivity, many aspects of the landscape are measured, but the impact of human behavior has largely been overlooked. [1] Sitting down on a desk. Writing. A tiger moving. A lion dying. A star being born. Sitting down on a desk. The desk. It is here. I know it. (Am I alive?) How can it be?

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Philosophy Wire: Ecology without humans?

New paper calls for the consideration of people's diverse needs in order to develop effective nature-based policies and investments in ecosystems. [1] There is no nature without humans. There are no humans without nature. Benefit nature and you will benefit people. Benefit people and nature will also benefit as well. But what are the benefits you shall seek? What does the cosmos wish, what do you ever dream? Do you choose life? Do you wish to see the flowers die? You die, nature lives. You live, nature dies. Funny. The only benefit you both share is that you were never ever there...

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Philosophy Wire: Trees changing. Humans dying.

Photo by Spiros Kakos

The annals of human history have been recorded through text, art, and oral tradition. However, for hundreds of years tropical forests have also kept detailed records of the human activities that unfolded around them. Researchers now describe how the rings, physical chemistry, and DNA of living tropical trees reveal the impacts of native culture as well as the scars of colonial occupation. [1] Changing the trees. At the end, we will even kill the forest. And we will laugh. And we will celebrate.

And then, for no apparent reason, we will cry…

And realize that the forest had changed us as well…

We want to plant seeds now.

But where to do that?

There are trees everywhere…

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Philosophy Wire: Stacking rocks. Dangerous! Dangerous?!?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2023-01-23]: An article stating the dangers of stacking rocks to take photos, because the environment is disturbed and some species could be endangered by such actions. [1] We used to be part of the cosmos. And even if we killed an animal, the cosmos kept moving grateful to our contribution. Now we are afraid to move a rock because we might disturb nature. We have become afraid of nature while nature was afraid of us. We have become its slaves while we used to be its masters. Not because we controlled it. But because we used to let it control us.

Stack the rocks in perfect piles.
Watch them balance.
Only because you have no balance at all…

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Philosophy Wire: Existing. Polluting. Killing our… self.

Could your basic acts of existence be polluting the air in the office room where you work? To find out, a team of engineers has been conducting one of the largest studies of its kind. [1] We try to find ways of not polluting. And we are so much worried that we do, that we at the end turn against our very self. Because it is not the environment that we care about. It is us. We do not fear that we will kill the planet. (We cannot anyway) We only care about killing our self. We try so hard to prevent us from suicide. And the only way out is killing… us. At the end the universe will be pollution free. A paradise to live in. A paradise full of death…

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Philosophy Wire: Birds long gone…

Data show that since 1970, the US and Canada have lost nearly 3 billion birds, a massive reduction in abundance involving hundreds of species, from beloved backyard songbirds to long-distance migrants. [1] Why do you cry young man? For the birds you never heard singing? Why are you full of agony? For things you don’t care about? Worry not my child. The birds are not dead. For what you love will always be with you. If only you let it go. And cry.

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Philosophy Wire: Wilderness…

Conservation scientists say that just 23 percent of the world's landmass can now be considered wilderness, with the rest - excluding Antarctica - lost to the direct effects of human activities. [1] We consider ourselves as non-wild. But who is wild if not the species which can eliminate all the other species on the planet? We are scared of the forest. But in reality, the forest is scared of us.

Look inside yourself.
Do not be afraid.
You are the raging abyss.

Dark. Furious.
The destroyer of worlds.
And at the same time…
The life-giver of the cosmos.

A small child.
A delicate flower.
Birds singing.

It is not that the abyss is far away.

You ARE the abyss.
Whispering gently…
Trumping on flowers!

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Philosophy Wire: Environment. Human right. In a void world. (and only in this case)

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-08-08]: Dutch court ordered state to reduce emissions by 25% within five years to protect its citizens from climate change in world’s first climate liability suit brought under human rights and tort law. [1] We consider the world soulless. And in such a world a “good environment” is a “right”. A right of soulless people against other soulless objects. A legal construct which hides in an elegant way our voidness. We are the souls of the universe. And yet we ask for “rights” in relation to it’s soulless part…

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Say NO to Earth Hour! - Πες ΟΧΙ στην Ώρα της Γης!

[English article follows the Greek one]

28 Μαρτίου 2015 - Ώρα "ΓΗΣ". Η ευκαιρία για κάθε βλάκα να "αποδείξει" πόσο αγαπάει τη Γη αν και όλο το χρόνο χρησιμοποιεί ρεύμα για να φάει, να δει, να παίξει πίου-πίου στο κομπιούτερ, να στεγνώσει τα μαλλιά του, να έχει ζεστό νερό, να φτιάξει καφέ, να φορτίσει τα 2 κινητά του, να κάνει λίγο chat, να γράψει πόσο οικολόγος είναι στο FB βρε παιδί μου! Για αυτό αύριο ΑΝΑΨΤΕ ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΦΩΤΑ, ψήστε παϊδάκια σε όλα τα μάτια της κουζίνας και ανάψτε και το στέρεο να παίζει δυνατά μαζί με τηλεόραση. Έτσι για το καλό. Ο,τιδήποτε πιο ειλικρινές είναι πάντα καλύτερο.

Από παλιά τα έγραφα εγώ...

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28 March 2015 - Earth Hour. The chance for every stupid man to "prove" his love for Earth even though throughout the whole year he uses electric power to eat, to see, to play games on the computer, to dry his hair, to have hot water, to make coffee, to charge his 2 phones, to chat, to write how much ecologist he is in FB! So tommorow TURN ALL LIGHTS ON, bake burgers, open the music and the TV as well. Just... because! Anything more honest is always better.

I said it a long time ago...

Philosophy Wire: Electric cars which pollute. Obvious?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-07-30]: Electric cars more polluting than conventional ones? Could be. [1] Read carefully and between the lines. Wake up! Question the unquestionable! See black where everyone sees white! See pollution where everyone sees clean skies! What is promoted as obvious, most of the times it is not...

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Philosophy Wire: Russia, oil and anti-ecology as the only ecology!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-31]: Russia ships the world's first load of offshore Arctic oil. [1] Resources are to be used. Life is to be lived. Is the balance going to be kept if we keep thousands of tons of unused fuel untouched? Nature finds balance through violence. From the inner core of the stars to great volcanoes, balance comes via great unbalancing events. Be an anti-ecologist, if you wish to be an ecologist...

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Philosophy Wire: Moa, Maori, harmony...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-25]: It seems that Maori people ate the last moan birds. [1] Many people use this as an argument against primitive people which seems that they did not live in such harmony with nature as once believed. But why is killing a species not in harmony with nature if that species was not fit for survival you fake ecologists? How perverted must one be to think that not only life but also death are part of harmony in the cosmos?

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Philosophy Wire: Ecology. Primitive. "Do something".

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-31]: Spending billions to kill a fish, so as to keep the "balance" of the ecosystem. [1] Had we been "primitive" we would simply eat them. And SAVE billions! But now we are "progressed". We feel we need to "do something". (Feyerabend knew what he was talking about) We need to be "ecologists". Because we are not.

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Philosophy Wire: Denmark. Maasai. Primitive. Civilized.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-14]: Denmark youths kill thousands of under extinction dolphins in a way to show they entered adulthood and they are… mature! [1, 2] At the same time the Massai Association has stopped killing many lions due to their population decrease (which happened not due to Massai hunting but due to diseases)! [3] Primitive. Civilized. In their order or reference. Respect is what makes one Wise. Respect to nature. Respect to others. Respect to himself. And we have lost all of them... Oh yes. And respect to the dolphins as well!

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Climate models, IPCC, assumptions: Why "climate change" is in our mind.

Climate change seems indisputable, but it is not. If someone searches enough, he will see that specific dogmas (“innocent” assumptions? – see the MOTIVES at the end of the article) hide behind all the climate models used by the IPCC (mark the words, only by using these in Google will you be able to find any truly valuable article related to the theme).

Earth is heated by the Sun and radiates energy back to space (known as “flux”). If the energy radiated is equal to the energy sent from the Sun, then the temperature stays the same.

And here comes the important part: the role of clouds (cloud feedback). Many people think CO2 is the main greenhouse gas, but they are wrong: water vapor is. (1) Clouds can have two types of feedback in global warming: positive or negative.

Positive feedback: Some warming leads to a decrease in clouds due to the increase of the atmosphere’s ability to hold more dispersed evaporated vapor. (2) This decrease in clouds, leads to more Sun radiation reaching Earth’s surface and, thus, in an increase in warming. (3)

Negative feedback: Warming leads to an increase in clouds which act as a shield for Sun’s radiation, thus leading to less warming. (3)

Now here comes the important part: IPCC takes for granted that the clouds have POSITIVE feedback. This assumption makes all of their climate models show this relation between the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and to changes in radiation flux (4):

Now let’s take a look at the actual data we have from satellite measurements (4):

See also here or here on why the clouds have negative feedback after all or here for how scientists are starting to realize the mistake from IPCC. Could it be possible that cloud feedback is dependent on the area we analyze? (see here)

Get it?

IPCC is using climate models which do not model the climate correctly (5). And then they go on and attribute their wrong models poor performance to human made warming that (supposedly) their models did not predict!

Every time you look at a temperature increase diagram, pay attention to its scale (is the increase so HUGE or have we just magnified a small change?), check which are the uncertainty bounds in the diagram (could it be possible that within the error limits we do not have any change?), but MOST IMPORTANTLY: LEARN THE ASSUMPTION ON WHICH THE DIAGRAM IS BASED!

Assumptions rule our world.
Assumptions rule science.
Assumptions rule philosophy.
And when we forget we use them, they turn into a much more dangerous thing: DOGMAS.

But WHY? Why would anyone use wrong assumptions in such a way? Does Al Gore want our good?

The reason is simple: All this effort to stop global warming is the perfect excuse to keep developing countries… developing! (and some people gain money through the COS stock exchange in the process)

Science has lost its innocence a long time now.
And it is difficult to earn back something like that...

From that point of view, the world is really becoming cold. Too cold...

Related articles

• A modified aerosol-cloud-climate feedback hypothesis
• The Iris Hypothesis: A Negative or Positive Cloud Feedback?
• Does the Earth have an iris analog? [NASA]
• Huffington Post article: Admitting that the current climate models make assumptions about the cloud feedback. ("The current consensus on this from the IPCC is that the clouds are in the net warming. Not real sure")

PS. ScienceNews publishes a related article immediately after me? [see here] How more pioneering can Harmonia Philosophica be?

Philosophy Wire: Tigers, plants, cameras, pseudo-ecology.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-02-02]: Documenting the lives of tigers with automated cameras in the wild. [1] Digitizing biodiversity history at the New York botanical garden. [2] But why? Why keep the memory of something dead just to pretend it is not? As Heracletus used to say, the dead must be removed from the living as fast as we can - like manure...

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Philosophy Wire: Balance, cloning, imbalance.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-24]: Scientists plan to clone extinct mountain goat to roam again the Pyrenees. [1] Ecology... Balance... But what a minute! Why restore "balance" when the balance has decided that these goats are not needed?!?

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Philosophy Wire: Russian bear against pseudo-"ecology". 1-0!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-10-16]: Russians captured a Greenpeace vessel at the Arctic sea and arrested Greenpeace members on accounts of terrorism. [1] At last someone fights against this pseudo-ecology of american organization which supposedly care about the environment but the only thing they care about is the US foregn policy. Where was Greenpeace during the US nuclear tests or during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Hypocrisy has its limits. Your ecology stopr where my political rights start...

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Philosophy Wire: Ecology for dummies…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-09-27]: We like "biodiversity" but at the same time want to kill every new "foreign" plant that comes into our country. [1] Ecology for dummies…

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Philosophy Wire: Biodiversity - We like it until we are... eaten.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-09-22]: We all like biodiversity. [1] Until a lion comes towards us to eat us. Then we suddently remember how much we like zoos...

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