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throwaway4496 | 6 months ago

Nature has no feelings, there will be no retribution, things will work out just fine, it will just be tough for us, maybe even wiped out, but nature will prevail. life will find a way, look at places where humans get excluded, everything regenerates.

It is not a crises of nature, it is a crises of habitat for us as species, and a bunch of other like us.

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Etheryte|6 months ago

This is a pretty pointless nitpick. It's akin to saying that a large meteor strike is not the end of the world because the planet will still be here.

mikodin|6 months ago

I think there is also a reality in which our scope of what we care about is widened beyond just the human species. As a species that has such a powerful impact on other beings, it would be nice to try and reduce the amount of unnecessary suffering and pain that we place on them. While we cannot eliminate it, life takes life yadayada, we can reduce it and try to curb the mass extinction that we are actively causing.

From another angle, it's taken a really long time for evolution to get to this point, what can be experienced from the myriad life forms is quite wide and widening, it would be a shame to return to only the level of a microbe.

Must we take everything else down with us?

throwaway4496|6 months ago

You think the scope of what humans can do will surpass the impact of various ice ages? the various volcanism/anoxic events?

simiones|6 months ago

"Save the planet? The planet's fine - it's us that are fucked."

-- George Carlin

UncleMeat|6 months ago

George Carlin is a comedian. That line is a joke, not an actual serious retort to somebody using the phrase "save the planet" to talk about stopping climate change.

lenkite|6 months ago

Lizzies love high temperatures - it will be the second coming of the Dinosaurs!