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> My only hope is that science can save us somehow. It's not about us. It's about the planet. Climate change only threatens us as a species. Once we're gone, t
by Jaruzel 6y ago
> My only hope is that science can save us somehow.
It's not about us. It's about the planet. Climate change only threatens us as a species. Once we're gone, the planet will recover. It's recovered from eco-collapse before, and it will do it again.
- woutgaze 6y agoWhy will it again? I suspect survivorship bias here.
- rimliu 6y agoDescribe in details, how do you kill the planet. Spoiler: you cannot. If humans were to set their purpose to kill the planet, they would kill themselves at best, and I am not even so sure of that.
- dropmann 6y agoExactly, by saving us, science might do more harm than good. Finding a cure to covid-19 could also be seen as an human intervention into nature's attempt to regulate the human population growth. But in the the end there are only two possible outcomes: either humans will find a way to preserve an habitable environment or face extinction.
- highmastdon 6y agoHonestly, COVID-19 isn’t the one that’s nature’s way of intervention when compared to other diseases. There’re 4 times more people dying of cancer and another 4 times as much of heart disease. COVID-19 is just a way of the Big Pharma to fill their pockets and for politicians to make a power grab (never waste a good crisis)