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Humanoids went millions of years without airplanes. There are plenty of industrialized endeavors that are enabling a financed minority to endanger the entire s

Humanoids went millions of years without airplanes. There are plenty of industrialized endeavors that are enabling a financed minority to endanger the entire species. Trying to carve out exceptions that many will still be too poor to participate in is some self serving gibberish. Accept figurative death as a necessity and disabuse ourselves of delusions of grandeur. As minds adjust we’ll find new things to be titillated by. Don’t get me wrong; given politics and public agency, YOLO it is. Zero fucks. If the present is not going to concern itself with others future, why concern myself with the present? Why mold myself to expectations of indifferent moral relativists, implicit ageists, a perspective built on observation of their indifference to adjustments agency, virtue signaling rhetoric be damned. Dedication to inaction or action that comes way too late in deference to equivocating, is nihilism about the state of the future. Let’s dispense with calling ourselves anything else.

peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> Humanoids went millions of years without airplanes. for clarity: I'm not opposing to the idea that we could survive without planes or any other post industrial comfort. But perhaps embedding thermometers in the asphalt of an airport track it's not the smartest of the moves if you want to reliably measure changes in temperature over time. I believe people give themselves too much credit: politics, planes, cars, it doesn't matter, it's not the people that will solve the climate crisis, but how well the system as a whole is going to adapt. I can do whatever I want, but it's factually (not cynically, it is what it is) completely useless when all the population of my country put together represent 2% of India+China population. It's like trying to fix high blood pressure when only the thumb is following doctor's orders.

peoplefromibiza 4y ago

> Humanoids went millions of years without airplanes. for clarity: I'm not opposing to the idea that we could survive without planes or any other post industrial comfort. But perhaps embedding thermometers in the asphalt of an airport track it's not the smartest of the moves if you want to reliably measure changes in temperature over time. I believe people give themselves too much credit: politics, planes, cars, it doesn't matter, it's not the people that will solve the climate crisis, but how well the system as a whole is going to adapt. I can do whatever I want, but it's factually (not cynically, it is what it is) completely useless when all the population of my country put together represent 2% of India+China population. It's like trying to fix high blood pressure when only the thumb is following doctor's orders.