And when the planet overheats, it will heal itself of its virus... and continue on for billions of years more.
We had a ~~good~~ run.
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You know, I see this sentiment a lot, and I hate it. Are people perfect? Fuck no. Are we destroying our own futures? Certainly. But we don't have to be a virus. The people who run the world are amoral and corrupt and they assume everyone is just like them. Those people push this narrative, because it suits them and their power.
We can and will be better, because there's no other choice.
You're right, humans are not a virus. We're animals, and just like most other animals we will increase our population and our consumption as long as we have resources to consume. Usually when an organism exceeds the carrying capacity of their ecosystem, they experience a population crash that brings them back within the ecosystem's sustainable boundaries. We are currently exceeding the carrying capacity of our ecosystem, so a significant decline in population and/or consumption levels seems inevitable.
Overcoming this bullshit is how humanity gets to become what it needs to be
Right now we’re like a teenager living on our own, in way over our heads, with a couple different paths we could wind up going down
And this is why we need to guillotine the rich. Or introduce a wealth tax. I am open to either.
The worst part is we've used so much of the resources no other species from earth could make it nearly as far as we have
C-suite executives are overjoyed at the prospect of making people work longer hours.