Mastodawn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116346848141590494

People like to forget that fighting climate change is about _saving human lives_ and not about saving Earth.

Even if it's 20 degrees higher or 20 degrees lower on average, Earth will do fine, life will do fine, nature will be fine—but humans won't be fine.

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can 2d ago

@thomasfuchs Earth will do fine, but many other species along homo sapiens sapiens will go extinct.

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Human Brain Enthusiast 2d ago

@can Of course they will, but my point is this stuff also happens "naturally"—it's a self-regulating system and will find a new equilibrium with new species, but definitely without us.

Note that any species goes extinct eventually—even if there is no change to the environment.

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Human Brain Enthusiast 2d ago

@can So what we're mainly doing is committing suicide.

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TheStrangelet

@thomasfuchs @can True, it would be a lot cooler if we were not committing suicide so quickly. What's the hurry y'all?

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su_liam 1d ago

@thestrangelet @thomasfuchs @can Maybe because we really can’t do a long-run death march on fossil fuels at this point. Slowing it down would involve getting off of those fossil fuels, and if we do that, we might need nuclear bombs to do suicide. That likely isn’t going to be slow.