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He's not saying this is all fine and dandy, hes saying its not an apocalypse, just a global catastrophe from which both the earth and humanity will recover.
by arama471 10y ago
He's not saying this is all fine and dandy, hes saying its not an apocalypse, just a global catastrophe from which both the earth and humanity will recover.
- rosser 10y agoThe odds are a bit longer on humanity surviving this mess than the planet.
- Macylpse 10y agoHumanity will become extinct long before the biosphere. You need to think more inhuman [1] "It is based on a recognition of the astonishing beauty of things and their living wholeness, and on a rational acceptance of the fact that mankind is neither central nor important in the universe; our vices and blazing crimes are as insignificant as our happiness. […] Turn outward from each other, so far as need and kindness permit, to the vast life and inexhaustible beauty beyond humanity. This is not a slight matter, but an essential condition of freedom, and of moral and vital sanity.’ [1] http://dark-mountain.net/stories/books/book-1/the-falling-years-an-inhumanist-vision/ http://dark-mountain.net/stories/books/book-1/the-falling-ye...