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Fossil Future: The Epstein/Caplan/Hanson Conversation

Policy@McCombs

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We Shouldn't Play God

A lot of a related feeling that people have that sacred that nature is sacred is that we shouldn't play God. So I think that feeds into sort of when people show like some parameters based and said we've been wandering in this part of the parameter space but now we're drifting out of the range we've been in so if they see a two levels or ocean pH levels or you know other sorts of parameters it's often very persuasive many scientists to say we are moving out of a familiar range of parameters and we are doing that playing God basically. People need to recognize how bad an impacted nature is how much we've impacted it and how much benefit we derive from impacting it at this moment.

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