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We need to stop pretending that nature will survive. Once you start treating the natural world as just another finite resource all sorts of policies become comm
by konjin 6y ago
We need to stop pretending that nature will survive. Once you start treating the natural world as just another finite resource all sorts of policies become common sense.
For example an oxygen tax to keep enough land set aside for plants of some description. Or better yet, fusion based co2 scrubbers.
- rimliu 6y agoHow do you imagine killing nature? We could not do that even if we declared is a as sole goal of the humanity.
- krapp 6y agoNature will survive. Plants might not, humans definitely won't, but given the extremes at which we've found life on Earth it's obvious something will, even if it's just bacterial colonies in hydrothermal vents deep under the ocean. Life... uh.. finds a way.