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climate change - what to do or not to do?

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I read in Wikipedia: "Currently, the Earth is in an icehouse climate state. About 34 million years ago, ice sheets began to form in  Antarctica ; the ice sheets in the  Arctic  did not start forming until 2 million years ago. [5]  Some processes that may have led to our current icehouse may be connected to the development of the Himalayan Mountains and the opening of the  Drake Passage  between  South America  and Antarctica. Scientists have been attempting to compare the past transitions between icehouse and greenhouse, and vice versa to understand where our planet is now heading. Without the human influence on the greenhouse gas concentration, the Earth would be heading toward a  glacial  period. Predicted changes in  orbital forcing  suggest that in absence of human-made  global warming  the next glacial period would begin at least 50,000 years from now [  (see  Milankovitch cycles ). But due to the ongoing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth is instead hea

A meaningful life in the era of climate change

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This a is a big question  and of course no one has an answer that suits all of us. Let's start with the problem that some of us see, but the most of us seem to not grip. Climate change may be an existential question. Why? Is it not the solution political and technical? If whe more and more produce energy with solar and wind power and drive electric cars we will stop climate change.... Sustainable development is just a some words without meaning. There no such thing. Yes, people that ate selling things, like Elon Musk, wants it to be true. What will the mining for the ingredients in the batteries mean for nature?  And is the e-cares just an excuse for to go on with economic growth? Some says this is a question how to relate to death. Both the death of the individual and of our civilization How to relate to the fast that everything comes to an end. But the same persons that use to say that we are in real danger also use to say that our world may be very rare. For ex

Are there any enlightened persons?

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Have you seen one? Anyway, I haven´t. And in the Diamond Sutra Buddha express that even himself is not enlightened. What, you may be ask. Was Buddha not enlightened? Well that depends if there once was a Buddha walking on this earth. What, is the Buddha just a fantasy figure in a story? Yes, maybe.... Here is what what Buddha asks a monk in the Diamond Sutra:                                             Tell me, Subhuti. Does a monk say to himself 'I have                                            obtained Perfect Enlightenment´ ?                                           No, Lord. There are no such thing as Perfect Enlightenment                                           to obtain. If a Perfectly Enlightened Buddha would say to                                            himself  'I am Enlightened', he would be admitting that there                                           are such a thing as an individual person, a separated self