Humanity having enough power that their mistakes can destroy the world isn’t normal. Our failure tolerances were calibrated in a world where the damage we did to nature was temporary. That’s not true anymore; we either get our act together now or go extinct.
We ain’t going “extinct” and people quite frankly need to realize that “extinction” is an incredibly low bar to clear. Billions will die and millennia of suffering lay before us, but the human species will be a-ok, especially if our industrial civilizations collapse. It’s a fire that’ll burn itself out, and thus history will continue.
The human species isn’t people, but a term to describe our shared code; code that isn’t you or the people you love. We are more than just our long term machinery. If we only focus on the forest, we miss the well being of the trees. I’d rather all our bloodlines end and us live lives focused on ourselves, than have an eternity of worshipping constructs that force us to live for them.
The Earth maintains homeostasis. Past 2 degrees warming, the current homeostasis systems break down. We don’t know where the next homeostasis point is. It’s probably a lot worse. It’ll keep getting worse past the point we stop making it worse. Most of the species on earth will go extinct.
When life first boomed enough to trigger a multi million year long ice age, it bounced back and established a new homeostasis. The life that caused it did not go “extinct,” instead evolving to not be the architects of its own demise. When homeostasis is broken, evolution uses mass death and heavy handed selection pressures to reestablish it.
Unless basically all large multicellular life goes extinct, humanity will continue. Industrial civilization will tear itself apart from environmentally triggered human conflict before it could ensure that.
ur a goof. Like i said, you’re missing the trees focused on the forest. It literally doesn’t matter if humans live or not bc your foolish behind is dead either way
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change what I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Excellent psychological advice in the form of prayer. The fact that life is shit is one of things ypu cannot change. The wisdom to know the difference is the real skill.
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Humanity having enough power that their mistakes can destroy the world isn’t normal. Our failure tolerances were calibrated in a world where the damage we did to nature was temporary. That’s not true anymore; we either get our act together now or go extinct.
We ain’t going “extinct” and people quite frankly need to realize that “extinction” is an incredibly low bar to clear. Billions will die and millennia of suffering lay before us, but the human species will be a-ok, especially if our industrial civilizations collapse. It’s a fire that’ll burn itself out, and thus history will continue.
The human species isn’t people, but a term to describe our shared code; code that isn’t you or the people you love. We are more than just our long term machinery. If we only focus on the forest, we miss the well being of the trees. I’d rather all our bloodlines end and us live lives focused on ourselves, than have an eternity of worshipping constructs that force us to live for them.
The Earth maintains homeostasis. Past 2 degrees warming, the current homeostasis systems break down. We don’t know where the next homeostasis point is. It’s probably a lot worse. It’ll keep getting worse past the point we stop making it worse. Most of the species on earth will go extinct.
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When life first boomed enough to trigger a multi million year long ice age, it bounced back and established a new homeostasis. The life that caused it did not go “extinct,” instead evolving to not be the architects of its own demise. When homeostasis is broken, evolution uses mass death and heavy handed selection pressures to reestablish it.
Unless basically all large multicellular life goes extinct, humanity will continue. Industrial civilization will tear itself apart from environmentally triggered human conflict before it could ensure that.
There’s no guarantee mammals will fill the new niches. Personally, I think we’re going to have dinosaurs again. They like hot weather.
ur a goof. Like i said, you’re missing the trees focused on the forest. It literally doesn’t matter if humans live or not bc your foolish behind is dead either way
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Shit man. This hits home way too hard.
Putting it this way kind of makes it sound like modern therapy has reinvented Buddhism.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change what I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Excellent psychological advice in the form of prayer. The fact that life is shit is one of things ypu cannot change. The wisdom to know the difference is the real skill.