>>13917143Your point is that it’s good that people are adapting to these modern circumstances right? I agree that they are adapting. I just don’t think it’s good.
No one is arguing that evolution has stopped working, or that people aren’t optimizing themselves for the current conditions. The issue is that those optimizations will harm us as a species when things become even a little bit less comfortable. On top of that they will likely lead to the world becoming less comfortable.
Think of it like we all got dumped out in the ocean. Everyone who couldn’t swim died, people who could barely swim survived but probably didn’t have much energy left over to produce offspring, finally those who could easily swim had no issues and left lots of offspring. As time went on, more and more people could swim well. Eventually people could all swim so well that they gathered into big clusters, and only 10% had to be swimming at any given time. All of a sudden, being a weak swimmer was fine, maybe even beneficial, because you could spend time focusing on reproducing. But eventually as more and more bad swimmers reproduced, the cluster struggled more and more to stay afloat. Eventually it broke up and the weak swimmers drowned, starting the cycle all over again.
We are currently at a point in the cycle where evolution favours weak swimmers, and you’re saying that’s a good thing.
