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

  1. There are even studies that show that brain forms differently in kids, who are raised in families with different income. The parts, which usually make good self-control possible, don't get properly formed if children experience malnutrition or lack of external stimulation in early childhood.
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  2. The humanity destroys more forest trees every year than even a whole country of people like you can plant if they collaborate. Now fires increased and add to illegal logging. Trees are good, but purposefully planting them won't change things on a large scale. People need to let natural forest re-grow in places which were abandoned or after logging/fires. But even that won't solve the problem with shifting climate paterns. Many forested areas now become carbon sources not sinks. And many are destined to fully burn and be replaced by steppe, because the conditions in some areas now lead to change in ecosystems
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  3. @A Global Crisis Activist of the Creative Society core has nothing to do with it. Climate changes due to Milankovich cycles plus greenhouse gases
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  4. In the current system if you are poor and reproduce, you set your children to be disadvantaged, if you are rich and reproduce, your children will inherit your privilege, thus perpetuating an endless cycle of inequality. Under capitalism, there is no ethical reproduction, just like there is no ethical consumption
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  5. One ear listens to happy birbs chirping outside, another - to the video about humans potentially destroying most of life on Earth haha
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  6.  @sten260  No true, he didn't even participate in developing PayPal, the company he created merged with one, which initially developed the platform, then Musk was CEO of merged company for a very short period of time. Company was sold for 1.5 billion when he already wasn't an executive there
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  7.  @hithere5553  yeah, and every country falls or changes into something unrecognisable with time. Yet many people often think that their country will last at least millennium into the future, including Americans.
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  8.  @pietersteenkamp5241  but Musk isn't doing any of that either, just makes an impression that he is doing that for PR
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  9. The truly incredible things are the natural environments we are destroying. Civilizations and technology, and everything artificially created, are overrated. All I want to see is stop of mass extinction, I don't care what technology will be like, as long as it allows to stop the terrible consequences of our actions
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  10. Any list of "the best people" I have ever encountered is a good reason to become a misanthrope. Humanity dooms itself and birbs are better
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  11. Faster than light travel is probably impossible
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  12. Overpopulation is not an issue if only current number of people is taken into account, but it should be number plus growth rate. We would not have an overpopulation problem if number of people was the same, but growth rate was 5 times smaller. Also, it is not simply overconsumption, it is economic inequality! That is the main problem! And if you value wild ecosystems and over species and biodiversity, you may actually see, that even if we eradicated overconsumption and inequality totally (which I doubt is possible), and if population growth was zero, then with current number of people and current technology we would still damage wild nature a lot, simply in order to feed and give comfortable life to everyone. I don't know about you, but for me it is unacceptable.
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  13. Humans are a disappointing species. The more I learn about history and current state of affairs, the more misanthropic I become. One can say I am racist against my own race. Human race. Birbs are better hahahaha
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  14. Sometimes while living in Russia, one cannot help but think dystopia is already here. Especially in some particularly depressive regions of the country
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  15. I am from Russia and our news are just propaganda for the regime. Also, our government sent help to Turkey to help with the fires, but still cannot send proper ammunition to Siberia, where at least 15000 km^2 are burning
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  16. Meanwhile here in Russia, country which is the richest in resources, the funding of healthcare is miserable and declining, government-owned polyclinics and hospitals now are understaffed and many were closed. And private ones are not only unaffordable for most, many places don't have them at all. Many villages are hundreds of km aways from closest hospitals. Number of hospitals in the country has fallen lower than in was in 1913 (before the revolution!). Nothing to say, Putin's corrupt regime is making Russia worse than the poorest countries. Crazy!
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  17. I am not American, so I learned about it years after it happened. Watching news wasn't my hobby at 8-10 years old. I also learned about how bad 90s were in my country (Russia) years after. Because I was such a small child back then I didn't understand anything
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  18. This is a lot
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  19. Some people don't wish ot cause suffering, but don't realise that their actions do cause it. Those things can be explained to them, and they will realise that.
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  20. I most sincerely wish planet to be well, even if that means humanity should, you know, go away
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  21. Lol our previous car, we were using for 17-18 years, and even now it runs, and dad sometimes uses it (mom doesn't allow him to drive her new car, she only drives it herself)
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  22. There is 18+ hours of sunlight in June. I know, I live almost right at the border with them
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  23. While humanity still parasitises on the rest of biosphere, taking way too much from it? We should reduce our numbers gradually to both live comfortably and not damage the biosphere in the process. Stop population growth!
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  24. Huh, my parents were born in 50s... In the USSR! Lol
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  25. Actually all the terrible things in that world are just up- scaled to the scale of half a galaxy. Wars may not be happening on Earth, but there are genocides, slave trade and wars on the scale of whole planetary systems. That is not optimistic or utopian. But realistic I guess, civilizations and humanoid creatures spoil the universe and create suffering on the larger and larger scales. That is why civilization as a concept is overrated, and we shouldn't wish for it to be spread further into universe. Natural systems are superior on many levels - more stable, more complex, last longer without any effort to maintain them, and can actually provide for millions of species not only one or few
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  26.  @wade_w  noone has to interact with kids or like kids, that is nonsense. I don't like being around kids, I am hyper introverted. I have full right to never interact with them
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  27. Oh they would like the mindless protomolecule infected superpowered slaves as their personal armies
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  28. Elon Musk is a conman. I think now you know it yourself. Check the channel Common Sense Skeptic btw
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  29. His wealth is overinflated. It is mostly calculated by value of stock, but that is overinflated itself.
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  30. I prefer seeing Moon in its natural state. Civilization and all it creates is overrated, it is good only in limited capacity. Wild nature is much better on large scales of time and space
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  31. Humans deserve to give up on them
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  32. Current civilization based on capitalism is a giant trash producing machine, we destroy complex ecosystems, which existed longer, than our whole species, to extract resources, which afterwards are made into things, which are used for few years and them discarded, due to planned and perceived obsolescence, and as we see here, even unused working things are often discarded. Most recyclable trash is not recycled, it just accumulates. As a result, on a really large scale of time and space, we function as destroyers, we destroy more than we create. I recommend reading article by Schramski, 2015, called something like "Rapid discharge of Earth battery..", just type it into Google. It looks into how we destroy potentially usable energy supplies, especially biological ones
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  33. Yeah, also very funny that most of people who think like that are breeders and do have kids
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  34. Well it efficiently makes the rise of entropy and disorder faster. I mean, that is the whole point if evolution of universe and why time arrow itself exists.
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  35. Most likely around 200-300, then if we don't change our ways, civilization will surely collapse
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  36. Poor other planets. I don't hate them enough to wish humans upon them!
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  37. No, they won't have enough nitrogen. Mars has insanely low percentage of nitrogen in any form, even simple N2. Earth's atmosphere has 78% of N2, Mars's <3%. Even bacteria which can fix nitrogen in the form of N2 cannot operate normally with such low concentrations. Also, the amount of CO2 is very low there. Percentage is high, but the whole atmosphere there has 100 times less pressure than Earth's, so partial pressure of CO2 on Mars is even lower than on Earth
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  38. The proverb like that exists? Wow, I arrived at the same idea by myself just as a result of studying science and how things work on Earth! Makes you appreciate that people long ago, who actually lived from land, always knew that much about nature and our dependence on it. Unlike many modern city-dwellers, who lost the feeling that we depend on Earth
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  39. In USSR even when it already started collapsing, extra produce was just given to workers of a factory. They could use it, or exchange it for something else. Nowadays extra products are just thrown away. Progress?
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  40. Capitalism is destroying everything faster than it can be fixed it seems
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  41. Most likely, any aliens of the similar level of intelligence are too far and we will never meet them
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  42. Putin = thief! He wants to stay in power forever to continue launder money and let his buddies do the same
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  43. Don't bring new people into this dystopian world by reproducing. Don't create new slaves for corporate elites. Adopt instead
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  44. This cannot be done on individual level. If you value your health, then you are not going to eat something which is at least starting to turn bad, because even small risk of infection is bad enough. So what that for someone in rural Ethiopia this piece of food would be "good enough". For me it is "bad enough", and I can't send this piece of food to Ethiopia in time. So, that is why throwing less food by individuals won't be achievable, because people are going to always be extra picky when it comes to their own food and their kids' food. Industrial problems, however, can be eliminated.
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  45.  @thegethconsensus393  well it should be. This species doesn't deserve second chance. Either it survives,or the biosphere can restore its former glory, both cannot happen at the same time. Humans started to hunt down species to extinction even during the ice age, I don't even want to mention how destructive transition to agriculture and later industry was
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  46. The humankind is and always was a dystopian nightmare species. All that treating each other like garbage for millenia, and now also destroying the rest of the biosphere. Our planet "cannot wait" to be free of us, judging by all the natural disasters this year
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  47. Except it always ends up being transferred through birth right after few generations. What does mean "deserve"? Does that mean that if you were unlucky to be born with no talent, low intelligence and predisposition to mental illness, you "deserve" to be a bum and suffer in extreme poverty? Meritocracy is a deeply unethical idea
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  48.  @cakeisyummy5755  I listened to an audiobook, and the written version has links to studies, I just don't know how I find that version
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  49.  @Katie.73  lol please don't talk about Russia when you know nothing. I am from Russia, and what you just said is blatantly false
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  50. Honestly, I don't think human species is any good and should exist for much longer, but it should go away peacefully and slowly, and certainly not by destroying most of other life forms
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