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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Us hemming and hawing about what parts of this system can be rehabilitated just keeps us indolent and divided, keeps the practicing sociopaths in charge, and keeps us literally stepping on the gas to extinction.

If we want our species to one day, long after we're all dead, have a sustainable civilization on this world, we will have to suffer generationally undoing what has been done a piece at a time. Entire Generations will have to suffer to plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in if our species gives shit one about the survival of our species. We need to shrink our global footprint, we need to have our species as a whole more involved in our food production, we need to stop pretending any of us can live above nature in decadence.

But again, we won't, despite our fictions we have no such nobility, so good luck to whatever sapient species comes after us.