David Suzuki on our economy and environment, part 3 of 6

[xxPowerOnxx]

OK. Many many points here do not make sense. I would like to elaborated on Suzuki's speech about economy and environment in my channel. Visit my channel and the videos I have gathered through years and everything will make more sense.

[ooglebydoogleby]

ive got to be honest this idea that science is trying to reconstruct the world sounds suspicously flawed. its just trying to understand it. whats the alternative to reductionism understanding emergent properties through the i ching? sounds suspicously like a god of the gaps argument without the god bit. great speaker but not at all sure about his rational on that bit have to watch the rest.

[hyperauxia]

holism and systems theory. as Suzuki said,

it was motivated by physicists (especially of quantum mechanics) who found reductionism broke down and couldn't explain the nature of reality. those ideas have application to ecology, cybernetics, and all fields of study. as the commenter stratvic said, elements of both approaches are needed

[ooglebydoogleby]

Quantumn mechanics is reductionism it is just unexpected results from reductionism which have illuminated the gaps in our understanding of the material universe. I understand there are implications but filling the gaps with some etherial geus work does not strike me as being very impresive. They certainly dont point to non materialist aproaches yeilding results.

[hyperauxia]

systems science works within the framework of a material world, if not as simply mechanistic as Newtonian mechanics

[ooglebydoogleby]

I dont understand what your writting it does not make sense. Please elaborate.

[stratvic]

To understand a system you need to be both holistic and reductionist. Neither work on their own.

[OrganicDrew]

have the foresight to see when you are being bought, look up good meaning green people signing petition to ban all water because they didn't understand it entirely di hydrogen monoxide =H2O or plain and simple water!

[yirphd]

rather incoherent post! care to explain further?

[stratvic]

It was a Penn and Teller prank at a environmentalist convention. They got well meaning people to sign a petition banning water by using scientifically accurate information about the properties of water.

There is a clip here on you tube. watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw