• @Wilzax
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      Humans are not bad for the environment. Capitalism is bad for the environment. Before imperialism and capitalism, most places on earth were populated by indigenous humans who actually protected the land they relied on to survive. There was no drive to exploit the land for all its resources, and there was an existential motivator for preserving nature as best as possible.

      See OP’s comment in a different thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/11768484

      • @iAvicenna
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        humans have invented capitalism

      • KillingTimeItself
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        13 months ago

        arguably, if we’re talking about what’s bad for the planet, you could easily just make the argument that humans are over populated due to our advances in science and engineering allowing us to both live longer, and protect ourselves from the various threats in the environment meant to keep is at a reasonable level of population.

        Presumably, mother nature never intended for species to be consciously countering her very own playbook at every fucking turn possible.

        • @Wilzax
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          33 months ago

          Mother nature never intended anything because mother nature is just random chance and multiplication of the best fit

          • KillingTimeItself
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            and we abused the mechanisms underlying that random chance in order to bypass the best fit line, like extremely aggressively.

            We’re essentially the worlds worst invasive species.

          • KillingTimeItself
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            117 days ago

            this is true, it’s also a dog whistle for many other things.

            This is a more philosophical consideration, rather than a political one though, mostly just a tidbit on how everything is relative and nothing actually matters lol.

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      how many billionaires have mosquitoes killed so far? that is the correct question 𓆤