• @BadAdvice
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    -311 months ago

    Exactly. The way we live now is unsustainable, but not for the planet. It’s unsustainable for us. When a global ecosystem collapses, a new one will grow in to fill the void. Life abhors a vacuum. Unfortunately for humanity, it also abhors hoarding. Our systems of hoarding will break down and the everyone has the big sad about it. Humanity has had every chance to worry about the bigger picture but has consistently chosen short term profit over longterm sustainability pretty much since we started writing shit down. I just wish we’d be more like the great central American cultures and accidentally leave behind a bunch of bitchin rainforest. Probably more like a bunch of mad max style endless badlands. Great for lizards, not so much the hairless water chimps.

    • @Coreidan
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      211 months ago

      I wish I could comprehend what point you’re actually trying to make.

      On one hand you’re criticizing climate change folks over being alarmists. On the other hand you admit that modern day civilization is pretty much fucked.

      Are you in capable of seeing that people are scared that very soon they could be starving to death? I think about this every day and there isn’t a single thing I can do about it. I can’t change how the world works. I can’t change our emissions. Instead I just sit here and watch the world burn. Meanwhile I can’t help but think about my future in which I’ll likely be literally burning and starving to death.

      Yet you can’t understand the sensationalism over it and why regular people are alarmed? You can’t possibly be this daft.

      • @BadAdvice
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        111 months ago

        Regular people are not alarmed. They still buy fireworks, go on road trips, and consume like they’ve been taught their entire lives. The select few that ARE alarmed can’t do anything with a system built from the ground up to reward indifference to the environment. You need to worry about your fellow man a lot more than you need to worry about hunger or fire if you are privileged enough to even be a part of this conversation. And that’s the whole problem. Humanity, as a species, is violent, duplicitous, and primarily motivated by self enrichment. The best thing we as a species could do for the cosmos is build the machines that will keep us occupied here instead of strip mining the stars. We can’t be trusted with not destroying the universe to make the ultimate fidget spinner.

        • @Coreidan
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          111 months ago

          That’s cool. Enjoy starving to death since apparently you don’t care

          • @BadAdvice
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            111 months ago

            Starvation is time inefficient and not a robot overlord approved liquidation process.

            • @Coreidan
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              111 months ago

              Crop failures will disagree

              • @BadAdvice
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                111 months ago

                Good thing the crops won’t be in charge. We should praise our benevolent future robot overlords.

                • @Coreidan
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                  111 months ago

                  Ya it’s hard to be in charge when you’re dead

                  • @BadAdvice
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                    111 months ago

                    That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even standby may die. Thinking machines just need a little energy and boom, right back to life.