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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-hot-world-meteorological-organization-6096b3b604025aea9dee07a653907b55

Reckless growth of an aspect(humans) of a larger but still finite organism(Earth's ecosystem) that aspect is completely dependent on but indifferent to the damage its growth is doing, because it keeps doing it as it is its only imperative, is what metastatic cancer does.

I know our species worships the idea of infinite growth/metastasis with reckless abandon as fast as we can, but that recklessness has consequences.

Gotta love the true believers.

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

That analogy makes nonsense of your description of humanity metastasizing into space though - the equivalent being a cancer expanding and gathering resources from outside of the body it's embedded in? If anything it's the obvious solution to the problem of our putting too much strain on Earth's ecosystem - let us spread that strain to other worlds where there's no ecosystem to damage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

We haven't learned how to care for one another or the very air we breathe, and have very little interest in doing so, so I'm sure mastering strip mining the death void despite not learning how to crawl or walk as a species will go spectacularly 👍

Remember, the answer is always mooooaaaaaar.

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

Well yes mooooooar economic growth has always been an incredibly positive thing for humanity and space based growth would be no different.