Like the orc hordes of Saruman, mankind will not rest until every tree is felled.
Haha, exactly. Surprised it isn’t a live action ‘Barbie 2: Return to Kenland’ because marketing says a male lead polls better.
The ‘Twenty thousand years of this, seven more to go’ always clicked so hard for me.
Binders full of sofas.
Reminds me of the AccuWeather ceo/trump appointee who wanted to sell off all the us gov weather satellites so it could be privatized. Everything must be commodified.
Look at this douchecanoe sailing up in his douche canoe.
That actually sums up my view pretty accurately as well. I’ve tried to look back and see where the overall path could have changed. Even if you were to hypothetically remove oil from existence, we were still well on our way to wiping out whales and other fatty sea mammals for the same purposes.
As to the evolutionary pressures leading to cutthroat species, yeah I think that’s exactly what it is. By the time a world altering species can begin to see beyond itself and think holistically about its environment it has already done so much damage.
Random tangent- I highly recommend the Children of Time trilogy from Adrian Tchaikovsky if you’re into sci fi. I describe it as evolutionary biology sci fi, and eventually it goes into kind of a ‘what is consciousness/what is living’ bend. Took a little to get used to the structure of the first book, but man that first one especially I dug.
I’ve always figured that if one day there is a star trek like civilization cruising the galaxy, they’ll come up on our dead planet, see all the shit floating around and say something insightful about the great filter and blip on out of there.
He’s always been the one to say the quiet part out loud.
This is rhetorical (what with King Trump and all that), but isn’t meeting with foreign leaders about government affairs when you’re not the president a violation of the Logan Act? I feel like once a week I read a story about him clearly violating that.
Was surprised to be able to see it this far south, in canyon of the ancients so super remote.
Taken on a Canon R8 24mm wide lens, iso 1600, 15 second exposure, f5.0; no post processing.
Tsk tsk, y’all should just come out and say it.