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[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

We're actually going through the 6th mass extinction right now, so actually we are kinda killing most everything on the planet, not just us.

We should want to preserve that. Unfortunately a handful of old rich dudes don't care.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nature will survive, this specific bird species perhaps not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This specific bird is way to forgiving. It's more like saying if on average 1 species dies every million years on average, we have killed thousands of species in a thousand years. Then throw in the idea that we also could say the percentage of population of those species we killed would be over half of them, we can say to ourselves, yeah this is really being accelerated. Mass extinction has already begun. People who say humans will survive it are optimistic because our adaptability. It's more like if you want your descendants to be able to go outside and be able to breathe without life support systems, you should so something about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

There is a science fiction story I love but can never find.

It was about a society that was deep into climate change. Humans lived in giant concrete bunkers and never went outside. The oceans and land was fucked but we managed optimize it all to keep living. Farm the ocean for plankton for food and oxygen. Set a limit on how many humans we could have and how much food, water and activity you could do in a day to preserve resources.
And one man had managed to save a small patch of grass at the cost of a little bit of his own water. Until it was discovered and deemed an unoptimized flaw and burned.

I think of that story when I think of humans surviving climate change a lot. I think about it whenever I think I would like to have kids.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

you missed the point completely. life has always survived mass extinction events and will survive this one too. life will eventually flourish once again and humanity will have been a blip in earths history

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Right, the Gaia presented in this comic is a mother nature who does not give a shit about the lives of billions of animals. She only cares if life as a whole survives, she doesn't care how many species go extinct and become lost forever. Only humans care about that.

Humans are the universe's way of giving a shit about itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Up and to the right. Line must go up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Humans are basically just another massive asteroid hitting earth. And just as mindless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the 6th mass extinction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some things yes, most things... Not by a long shot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You could always google it instead of denying that it's happening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Going through? Yes. Causing? Yes. Could have modified or prevented it? Also yes in countless and effective ways over literally centuries.

Will we? No. No, we will not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cause the rich will be fine. They're simply not affected by it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Maybe the old ones who will die soon. But everybody else, including their children will be affected.