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Yes. It's amazing how most people can handwave away the health of the biosphere that supports our existence. The simple fact of the matter is that we are makin
by Daishiman 9y ago
Yes. It's amazing how most people can handwave away the health of the biosphere that supports our existence.
The simple fact of the matter is that we are making the planet uninhabitable at a rate that is too low for the average person to understand, while being too fast for species' evolutionary adaptations to kick in.
In a couple of generations we've polluted most bodies of water with some form of pollution, be it microplastics, fertilizer runoff, or a myriad other things whose effects are not understood.
We've altered the Earth's atmosphere to a point where it is, for all intents and purposes, irreversible.
We have no mechanisms to restore fertility and biodiversity to the levels where they used to be before our population explosion. No one would care anyway.
- okreallywtf 9y agoI agree and I'm very concerned about the same things, although the recovery of habitats after human habitation is gone does make me more optimistic a) because that means we could likely rehabilitate wildlife populations ourselves as long as they are not extinct and b) because we'll more likely kill ourselves off and the world will recover.