Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "vlogbrothers" channel.

  1. Humans actually create more problems than solve.
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  2. Planting won't restore natural complex ecosystems, which take millenia to form. Usually only 2-3 species of trees are planted, and rest of biodiversity cannot be restored.
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  3. yeah, and British were first people in the world who came up with idea that slavery should be ended in the whole world. They even used their ships and navy power and spent their resourses to stop other countries from trading slaves. Regressives forget about that too
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  4. We in Russia and other former USSR countries are thought 2 classifications: "continents" are physical geography and there are 6: Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antartctica. And there are "parts of the world" which is cultural/historical classification, and there are 6: Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Oceania and Antarctica. It is all arbitrary again as you can see
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  5. mdaaa. it is not me who is misinformed dude.
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  6. Just sterilize all people. Already existing people will live as long and happy as they can, but no new humans. It is my idea of ideal future
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  7. Human species is a plague. Noone ever killed as many humans as other humans. We are our own worst enemies. This species is a one more failure of evolution. We are destined to fail, just look at how mkst people behave when it comes to global problems, like environmental destruction, and how people tend to hate each other and be prejudiced. Nazis are just best example of how much harm people tend to cause each other, because of arrogant ideas like "one kind of people are better than others".
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  8. Planet as a whole is getting poorer, at least in terms of biodiversity. Thanks to us. Which also can suddenly undermine basis of our own civilization quite soon. Yeah, in average we nowadays keep getting 'wealthier', if you ignore that income inequality is rising along with global GDP. Poorest countries and poorest classes in any country didnt get wealthier during last several decades. Poor people even get poorer in many cases. Several economic organisations have recently estimated that less than 100 wealthiest individuals have as much as poorest HALF of global popualtion. "Progress" And even that economic development that actually benefits whole population, comes at the expense of environmental destruction and thus undermines our own future. HEalthier we get because science isnt that full of spoiled greedy people as politics and economics. But politicians and economists rule the world, not scientists. Scientists are helpless in the face of political persecution. In modern USA for example certain climate scientists get threatened because of climate change denying agenda of some political powers.  And problem with humans is, largely, that no matter how better it gets and for how long it gets better, it all can be easily destroyed in one moment by other, or even the same humans. Many examples in history. But no, ignore that and many other facts about our dark side, and continue believing in antropocentric myth that "humans are the best"... Most people, as evident, just ignore facts they dont like, after all. What we need to get better is not blind belief that we are "so good" but full and disappointing realisation that our badness isnt much outweighted by our goodness and only a lot of effort will make us better. Realisation of problems - not denial of them...
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  9. oh look special snowflake
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  10. I was terrified by tge idea of leading an average life before, 7-8 years ago, I realised that it is possible to be child-free and not marry anyone, but live alone if I want so. I was relieved. I am so introvert that family life would be hell for me. What about remembering, I dont care. I dont care at all about what happens after my deah. I may be interested in that cause of curiousity, but I dont really care
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  11. gender is not a social construct, that is why it cannot be disparaged
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  12. Fuck anti-GMO activists. And no sorry
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  13. everybody is responsible for caring about their own home, you cannot expect to be paid for it
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  14. You dont understand science at all. Go to kindergarten
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  15. no it is stupid haters vs normal people who do not hate whites or any other race
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  16. Soon in America: right after elections the campaign for next election starts...
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  17. I hope soon
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  18. I am 700 million second old freak who measures her own lifespan in seconds
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  19. Why should I care about people unknown to me? Just because they are members of the same species? That is not a reason for me. I have empathy for most other species of vertebrate and many invertebrate animals too. But progress of humanity also means in many ways death and torture of other animals. And the situation with biodiversity will worsen anyway, if humans grow their numbers and economic activity, no matter how "green" your technology is, it cannot be totally "green". For example, fossil fuels are the worst, but other sources of energy are also not that good: wind turbines cause deaths of many birds, dams on rivers worsen river ecology. And agriculture: we cannot live without it. But any kind of agriculture is bad for wild ecosystems. Any kind, without exception. So, no, I cannot choose between this species and whole other biosphere. Because all living creatures matter. Not only humans. I refuse to view other living creatures only as a resourse for human purposes. I realize that it is impossible to avoid all harm to other creatures, thus I realize that human progress has a huge downside. Maybe for someone else, lives of all those animals and other creatures dont matter. But for me they do. I love nature, I view myself as a part of biosphere, and all living creatures matter for me in one way or another. And I dont want to view humans unknown to me as more valuable than members of other species. In certain cases it is even the opposite: like death of my pet bird was bigger tragedy for me, than death of some people, and not only because of the emotional pain that it caused for me, but I really think that life of a bird is by itself as valuable as human life. Society cannot view it like that, due to practical reasons, but I personally can view it only like that.
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  20. +x 01 Well, it rrally depends on situation so much, and it is so hard to evaluate how certain change will affect humans and other creatures, and environment, that I usually feel like I cannot do that decision, that I dont have and cannot enough knowledge to evaluate such a situation and make such a hard choice. Of course, there are exceptions, situations, when it seems clear to me, what is definitely better or worse, and situations, in which I have to make a choice. But in most situations, I just cannot decide. I prefer to remain passive, but it is because I am not sure that those people, who are more active and who think, that they can always decide what change is doing more good than bad, are always right. More I learn, more it seems to me, than people too often overestimate their abilities to make informed decisions, and that overestimation makes a lot of problems
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  21. Indonesia has big land area, but most people live on Java island. Which makes its population density impossibly big
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  22. There can be no environment sustainability while human population continues unsustainable growth...
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  23. there is a psychoogical side to gender. That is not socially constructed, because human psychology is rooted in brain biology. That is why most people have same gender identity as biological sex and exceptions are very rare.
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  24. Eurasia is definitely one continent geographically. Borders between Europe and Asia are very arbitrary, and there are around ten different variants of said "borders"
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  25. The best year will be a year when humanity disappears mwhahaha
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  26. I hope you are trolling
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  27. Urals which separate Europe and Asia are several times shorter than Himalayas, which separate India from rest of Eurasia. Why then Europe is called continent and and India calles sub-continent? And by the way, here, in Russia, there is city with more than 1 million people that sits right on the border of Europe and Asia. If there wasnt some sign for that, you woudnt be able to tell where this border is...
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  28. Other animals also fan have preffered states. Like not being hungry and not being ill. You dont have to be intelligent to be sentient
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  29. good video. even I, sociophobic depressive piece of shit, became less depressed after watching it. thanks
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  30. At least you have some normal healthcare. Aha. Not like in Russia nowadays....
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  31. I actually think any decrease in birth rate is not that bad. The worst situation is either population decreasing very fast due to something like epidemic or war, or population increasing very fast, which can cause deficit of resources and jobs. Anything else is ok.
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  32. humans in general are terrifying
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