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Whenever I read an Octopus article I come back to the conviction that if it weren’t for the early death thing, these are the creatures that would be failing to
by biztos 7y ago
Whenever I read an Octopus article I come back to the conviction that if it weren’t for the early death thing, these are the creatures that would be failing to fight the climate crisis, and we would be — if not the creatures on the plate in the tapas joint, at least some scared and scurrying thing in the underbrush.
- lolc 7y agoIt's not only intelligence. The success of humans depends just as much on their social traits. Can groups cooperate? Can they have division of labour? Without that, you're not going to get far even if you're super smart.
- hnarn 7y agoIt's comforting for us as humans, of course, to think that any life form would end up in the same inevitable energy race which destroys the planet. Unfortunately there is no basis for this assumption beyond our own failure.