• @blue_zephyr
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    -12 years ago

    I’ll stop saying it the minute people stop saying we’re destroying the planet.

    • @[email protected]
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      442 years ago

      Only an idiot thinks that when we say *we are destroying the planet " they literally means the planet will explode or something. It’s clear that we mean the only part of the planet that is meaningful for us, the biosphere.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        But it’s the idiots that CONSTANTLY argue that the world will be fine. The framing of it as protection of animals/the planet/the climate makes it incredibly easy for people to pretend it’s optional, not directly related to them. This isn’t a hypothetical point, EVERY SINGLE climate discussion I’ve ever witnessed some mouthbreather has argued that “the climate will continue to exist, it doesn’t need protecting”.

        What needs protecting isn’t the planet, the ecology, the animals or plants, it’s US. It’s ENTIRELY an US problem.

      • @blue_zephyr
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        -11 year ago

        Which we also won’t destroy. Life on earth will adapt, but we’re making it inhospitable for ourselves.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          Well, I guess all the life forms that are going extinct through the Holocene/anthropogene extinction event, which humans caused, don’t matter?

          Sure there will be life on earth and it will adapt, but don’t act like we’re not taking down whole families of plants and animals with us… because it’s already happening.

          • ඞmir (LemmyWorld)
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            01 year ago

            Honestly, I really don’t care about what happens to the planet after all humans are extinct…

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Look genius- we know the planet will be just fine. When ppl say we are destroying the planet we obvious (except to you) are talking about our own survival on the planet.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          Again Sherlock, nobody is talking about the frame of view of random animals that may or may not be fine. We are only talking about our frame of reference.

          If you actually considered the semantics of “technically some people will still be alive but living in a mad max like apocalypse or jellyfish will be fine” means that our biosphere hasn’t been destroyed for humans you are being ridiculously pedantic.

    • ANGRY_MAPLE
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      2 years ago

      I’m sure that will make all of the plants and animals feels better…/s.

    • @postmateDumbass
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      42 years ago

      People have refused to say that for centuries.