If our species cared about our species’ future, we would live with whatever energy generation our only habitat could environmentally tolerate/sustain, and we clearly wouldn’t have bred to the point the point that the planet is pushing back. Instead we STILL demand growth/metastasis. “growth or die!” Oh the delicious gallows irony. Homeostasis should have been our species’ business, but that ship has sailed.
Humans are so self-important that we don’t even seem to care about how fragile our situation is, and we all know at some level we’re going to be our own end.
Humans have never cared for other humans. We are simply incapable of that. If we could, we wouldn’t be waging wars, committing genocide , fucking up our environment, all of which are detrimental to us first. Humans will be one of the first species to kill each other, once water shortage starts. By the time, avg temperature increase reaches 2 degree celsius, vast majority of humans will be dead, due to drought, storms and floods. Nature will adapt, it will not be easy, but nature always adapts. Humanity as a whole has forgotten how to adapt because in our arrogance we think we can adapt nature to our requirements by throwing money. But, that is a fallacy. Nature always wins, simply because nature can adapt.
I’ve been calling it human exceptionalism. If we found an organism that drives 150 other species extinct a day we would do our best to eradicate it permanently, but it’s us so we ignore it.
If our species cared about our species’ future, we would live with whatever energy generation our only habitat could environmentally tolerate/sustain, and we clearly wouldn’t have bred to the point the point that the planet is pushing back. Instead we STILL demand growth/metastasis. “growth or die!” Oh the delicious gallows irony. Homeostasis should have been our species’ business, but that ship has sailed.
Humans are so self-important that we don’t even seem to care about how fragile our situation is, and we all know at some level we’re going to be our own end.
Humans have never cared for other humans. We are simply incapable of that. If we could, we wouldn’t be waging wars, committing genocide , fucking up our environment, all of which are detrimental to us first. Humans will be one of the first species to kill each other, once water shortage starts. By the time, avg temperature increase reaches 2 degree celsius, vast majority of humans will be dead, due to drought, storms and floods. Nature will adapt, it will not be easy, but nature always adapts. Humanity as a whole has forgotten how to adapt because in our arrogance we think we can adapt nature to our requirements by throwing money. But, that is a fallacy. Nature always wins, simply because nature can adapt.
I’ve been calling it human exceptionalism. If we found an organism that drives 150 other species extinct a day we would do our best to eradicate it permanently, but it’s us so we ignore it.
We’re like a bacterial infection on Earth. We won’t kill the host but it’s already permanently damaged.
well put.