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World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
(www.theguardian.com)
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We are single handedly dooming our planet so a handful of people can be unbelievably wealthy. The vast majority of our resource expenditure is unnecessary. But the moment anyone stops the rat race means starvation, imprisonment, or execution. The human race is pitiful. I just hope we all can emancipate ourselves and bring humanity back in line with the reality of the situation.
Pretty confident the planet will be fine, maybe it'll take 10 million years but it'll thrive again, in some form.
What we are dooming is humanity, and honestly at this point it seems like we deserve what's coming.
Yeah, who cares about all the animals we're dragging down with us, as long as we're not technically eliminating life itself it's all good
there's at least 15 billion hands. Maybe 15.5.
15.5 billion handedly destroying the planet so that fewer than a few thousand hands can have most of the wealth.
This implies every hand has an equal part in the destruction, which isn't quite an accurate representation.
No individual cog chooses to make the machine run, or would given the choice, but cogs they are, all.
Capital will not rest until every cog is installed and generating the maximum amount of profit. Until of course, the cogs cease to be profitable. Then they will be discarded.
Are you calling indigenous people, who live as hunter gatherers, cogs in the machine? Or are you just not counting them?
I think there are some groups of people that get a pass when it comes to blame for the destruction of our planet. It's a very insignificant amount of people in comparison to the total population, but they exist.
They're not profitable, they will either be made profitable, or they'll be removed. The lands they inhabit will be repurposed and stripped off all resources.
This is actively already happening. It's happening right now, while you're reading this.
The relentless pursuit of capital has no room for those that do not contribute.
But just think of how much profit will be made up until that last moment before the collapse!
The stock market really does feel like an unstoppable basilisk that will outlive us all. Society will collapse in some cataclysm and 200 years from now someone will turn the power back on and under the rubble they'll find a ticker still imagining value continuing to rise.
Remember the Permian-Triassic extinction? Now THAT seemed like it doomed the planet, right? Two mass extinction events, BLAM-BLAM, back to back!
80% of marine invertebrate species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species WIPED OUT FOREVER.
Too much oxygen sometimes, too little others - that time it rained for 2 million years - the two times volcanoes froze the Earth.
Yet like the Dude, the Earth abides.
That's right. In a meager checks notes 2M years, the native floura and fauna will be back on their feet, maybe, we hope.
We're enjoying a certain degree of selection bias. We exist here because our planet did eventually recover. But this outcome wasn't predetermined.
Along the way, we may end up destroying things that are ultimately unrecoverable. The eye-sight of the trilobyte was a happy little accident no living species has yet been able to duplicate. Anerobic life has been relegated to the most remote and microscopic corners of the world. Natural longevity has degraded in younger variants and our genetic code is overloaded with failed, silenced adaptations that leave mammals more prone to cancer and other genetic defects that our historical counterparts are less frequently burdened by.
And that's assuming we aren't on an unwitting collision course with a real end game disaster - like the hyper-corrosive atmosphere of Venus or the depleted atmosphere of Mars.
What are the odds something as complex and intricate as the human brain will exist before our star goes nova and the planet is consumed in its expansion? It took us 4.5B years to get here. Crazy to toss it all out the window because some business nerds in DC and Detroit hate trains.
There is no native anything. We're ALL transitional species. OF COURSE things get destroyed that are unrecoverable. We don't have fish with armor. We don't have giant sloths with stony skin. Trilobites are ALL OVER the Fossil record. We don't have a single one today.
Let's stop trying to preserve this thin slice, this snapshot of evolution as though it were the final destination. It's not.
I like people; I'm one of them. But humans have only been here a few hundred thousand years. Life wasn't struggling to produce US. We're a (in our own minds) happy accident, produced by the opportunities afforded us in one of those earlier extinctions.
We will not be throwing away 4.5B years of evolution. We'll just be demonstrating that too much intelligence is not a successful evolutionary trait.
That's a sloppy use of the term
Yeah, we are not dooming the planet - we are dooming ourselves.
We should start making vaults and move the rich into them, leave the rest of us outside to enjoy the world.