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It makes me think of the recent "Nature is healing" memes (sometimes "Nature is healing, we are the virus"), i.e. Nature is taking back what humans assumed was

It makes me think of the recent "Nature is healing" memes (sometimes "Nature is healing, we are the virus"), i.e. Nature is taking back what humans assumed was theirs to keep. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/coronavirus-meme-nature-is-healing-we-are-the-virus https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/coronavi... I agree that the "cute/relentless" combo of beavers is quite comical..! See: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/beavers-continue-relentless-march-north-to-patagonia-1.601956 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/beavers-continue-relentless-...

adventured 6y ago
It makes me think of how anti-human, self-hatred focused (all notions that humans are a virus derive from self-hatred first, without exception), and irrational those memes are, since humans are nature. Anything we do and anything we build, is nature in action.
- vernie 6y ago
  I wonder if it coincides with antinatalist attitudes.
- 6510 6y ago
  What kind of adversary is mother nature expecting that she would spawn such monstrosities? It seems like the most serious case of paranoia. I feel like a means of mass producing bad ideas now.
- atweiden 6y ago
  Given how thoroughly humanity has polluted this planet seemingly entirely for its own selfish gain, surely from the perspective of “nature” the extinction of humanity would be no great loss. > Anything we do and anything we build, is nature in action. “It’s comin’ right for us!”
  - Baeocystin 6y ago
    We have the Oxygen Catastrophe and the Azolla Event as real-world examples of life killing off a lot of other life. Humans are the first biosphere-changing organism that can actually think about what we do, and maybe not go off the deep end. I think humanity's efforts to do so, as imperfect as they are, are worthy of praise.
    - atweiden 6y ago
      > Humans are the first biosphere-changing organism that can actually think about what we do, and maybe not go off the deep end. Maybe not go off the deep end? David Attenborough would like to have a word [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_Our_Planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_...
trhway 6y ago
>a Canadian- made steel trap, pulling it out of the water even at this day and age we're still doing that cruelty of subjecting the animals to the hours/days long medieval torture.

adventured 6y ago

It makes me think of how anti-human, self-hatred focused (all notions that humans are a virus derive from self-hatred first, without exception), and irrational those memes are, since humans are nature. Anything we do and anything we build, is nature in action.

vernie 6y ago
I wonder if it coincides with antinatalist attitudes.
6510 6y ago
What kind of adversary is mother nature expecting that she would spawn such monstrosities? It seems like the most serious case of paranoia. I feel like a means of mass producing bad ideas now.
atweiden 6y ago
Given how thoroughly humanity has polluted this planet seemingly entirely for its own selfish gain, surely from the perspective of “nature” the extinction of humanity would be no great loss. > Anything we do and anything we build, is nature in action. “It’s comin’ right for us!”
- Baeocystin 6y ago
  We have the Oxygen Catastrophe and the Azolla Event as real-world examples of life killing off a lot of other life. Humans are the first biosphere-changing organism that can actually think about what we do, and maybe not go off the deep end. I think humanity's efforts to do so, as imperfect as they are, are worthy of praise.
  - atweiden 6y ago
    > Humans are the first biosphere-changing organism that can actually think about what we do, and maybe not go off the deep end. Maybe not go off the deep end? David Attenborough would like to have a word [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_Our_Planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_...

trhway 6y ago

>a Canadian- made steel trap, pulling it out of the water even at this day and age we're still doing that cruelty of subjecting the animals to the hours/days long medieval torture.