“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, November 1, 2012

Thanks Adam

Another climate change analogy, which respects Humean causality:

"We can’t say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.” From this Bloomberg article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-01/its-global-warming-stupid#r=hp-lst

HT Adam, a commenter. 

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