re: #6 LudwigVanQuixote

I think a lot of people falsely believe in an equilibrium; as in, believe that there is some ideal state for the planet that systems force towards. That’s one of the significant problems; people do not still fully understand that the system is arbitrary, and that biological entities have adapted to it.

People falsely conflate the give-and-take of a biological system— the boom and bust of wolves and rabbits, for example— to the physical systems which may include biological entities but do not have the same relationship at all.

This is the root of some of the sillier “We can just adapt” arguments, as though evolution were something that could happen as quickly as environments change.