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Understanding extinction – humanity has destroyed half the life on Earth
- palad1n 7y agoHoly Thanos!
- trashE 7y agoWhoopsie Daisy
- stareatgoats 7y agoWe are still transitioning from a phase where we believed that nature was an infinite pool of resources for humanity to exploit (and a place dump waste) to the coming stage where we are ultimately forced to assume a humbler attitude, and work together with the environment in order to achieve sustainability in the long term. There is no rational doubt that this is the case on a general level, what is still in dispute is which of our darlings that have to go. Oil? Wars? Nuclear energy? Cities? Cars? Food factories? Meat for supper every day of the week? Clothes fashion? Maybe (probably) all of these to some extent, and then some. The question is how.
- bJGVygG7MQVF8c 7y ago"humanity" covers a lot of ground. It would be interesting to decompose that term and expand our understanding of "extinction" to encompass what we might now call genocide or population replacement. Countless human groups / civilizations have been destroyed by others. The story isn't complete until we take our own status as animals into consideration as well.