This really misses the point. Humans are taking the majority of other species with us. It doesn’t matter that we are not destroying the entire planet forever, of course life will go on, but triillions of animals and plants are going to suffer and die entirely because of our actions.
Eh, from the perspective of Nature that’s kinda just how it goes. Honestly it’s pretty noble that we bother thinking about it at all. Mosquitoes don’t feel conflicted about spreading malaria, and they’ve probably killed more animals than us. Fungus doesn’t feel conflicted about killing plants. More than trillions of animals and plants have suffered and died entirely because of the actions of the rest of Nature.
Species come and go, but the overall ecosystem recovers. We aren’t the first species to wipe out other species, we won’t be the last. Trying to be better is good, but let’s not pretend Nature is some gentle shepherd.
The earth has been hotter, sweatier, and more CO2 filled than this before. It was animal hell and bacteria heaven though. Incompatible with mammals. Crocodile purgatory 🐊
For want of a more succinct meme - I swear there was one that just said “Silly humans…” | “I’ll be fine.”
This really misses the point. Humans are taking the majority of other species with us. It doesn’t matter that we are not destroying the entire planet forever, of course life will go on, but triillions of animals and plants are going to suffer and die entirely because of our actions.
Yeah that argument is annoying. Why does it matter that “the planet will survive”, technically, when it’ll end up as a dried-up husk.
Eh, from the perspective of Nature that’s kinda just how it goes. Honestly it’s pretty noble that we bother thinking about it at all. Mosquitoes don’t feel conflicted about spreading malaria, and they’ve probably killed more animals than us. Fungus doesn’t feel conflicted about killing plants. More than trillions of animals and plants have suffered and died entirely because of the actions of the rest of Nature.
Species come and go, but the overall ecosystem recovers. We aren’t the first species to wipe out other species, we won’t be the last. Trying to be better is good, but let’s not pretend Nature is some gentle shepherd.
The great oxygenation event pretty much murdered all life on earth. I don’t think the earth cares.
Humans are also genociding a lot of other species. I don’t want numbats to go extinct.
Some extinction events wiped out 99%of species… and life came back.
That’s nice, but I want the numbats to live long happy lives with children who love them.
were in the sixth. mass. extinction …and we’re doing it and most of us don’t give a shit, quite bizzare really
The earth has been hotter, sweatier, and more CO2 filled than this before. It was animal hell and bacteria heaven though. Incompatible with mammals. Crocodile purgatory 🐊
The crocodiles won’t even notice
Biggest bugs you ever saw
Only the living parts.
Business as usual, Venus by Tuesday.
I firmly believe humanity can turn earth into another venus. Some proportion of us would do it just out of spite.