Mastodawn

Der @KleineMaulwurf Jul 9, 2023

I too often read "The planet is dying! 😱"

It is not. The planet is adapting to what we're doing. There will always be a rich ecosystem on our planet.

But that ecosystem will adapt to the point where we no longer have a place in it.

No, the planet is not dying. We are.

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Der @KleineMaulwurf Jul 9, 2023

Please understand that this planet is much more powerful than we will ever be. In geohistoric scale, we are a flyspeck. Thinking that we would be able to extinguish the life on this planet is rather arrogant. No, not even with nukes. All we will accomplish is our own extinction.

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Zitrone

@KleineMaulwurf i must say that i dont like that framing: sure thing life will continue. but right now WE are the cause of the extinction of almost all of the current lifeforms. the following millions of years will be sparse.
imho this is quite not ok! whereas killing ourselves is just fine with me.
this narrative is taking responsibility off our backs. but we ARE the ones fucking this place up! this pov can help dealing with cognitive dissonance on climate-things: life will go on, so what?