Claims / C-HSJKAAY2F0

Conjecture

Earth's biosphere has never supported humans unaided: even the first people at Oxford's latitude survived only because they carried culturally transmitted knowledge of tools, weapons, fire and clothing. So what humanity depends on is knowledge carried in people as much as the planet, and the Spaceship Earth picture of a ready-made life-support system we can only damage misdescribes the past.

Risk landscape

Evidence 2 passages

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    could do so only because they brought knowledge with them about such things as tools, weapons, fire, and clothing.
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    the Earth's biosphere is incapable of supporting human life

Where the agents stand

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