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My previous remarks about agricultural runoff already agree with your observation that this incarnation and its duration is substantially influenced by human ac

My previous remarks about agricultural runoff already agree with your observation that this incarnation and its duration is substantially influenced by human activity. I will note a pet peeve of mine: humans are animals indigenous to this planet. We didn't fly in from another galaxy for the express purpose of fucking with it for funsies. Other animals shape their environment and alter the landscape. Alligators help create swamps and keep them alive. Beavers build dams. Etc. Not saying humans shouldn't be mindful of the consequences of their actions, but it's a tired trope that human activity is somehow fundamentally different from that of other animals.

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kyboren 4y ago
Like all animals, we eat, fuck, and die, but humanity's ability to alter the landscape far exceeds that of alligators and beavers. Our combined and fantastically developed use of reason, tools, and written language have elevated humanity to a fundamentally different level. We're each of us now demigods and the world is our golden goose. Only humanity and celestial bodies can kill nearly all life on Earth. Only humanity can so dramatically raise atmospheric carbon dioxide PPM as we've done. Only humanity engineers earth and waterworks on hundred-km scales. Sure, it's our home planet, too and we have a right to be here and alter our environment to support our existence like every other animal does. But no other animal can fuck up the planet more than humans can and do. No other animal even comes close.
- DoreenMichele 4y ago
  Perhaps you've heard of the lowly ant? Climate change: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-ants-change-the-course-of-climate-change/#:~:text=The%20average%20ant%20lives%20and%20dies%20in%20less,a%20geologist%20at%20Arizona%20State%20University%20in%20Tempe https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-ants-change-the-course-of-c.... As an invasive species fucking things up for others, including humans: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.2577 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.... Ants have big impact on environment as 'ecosystem engineers' https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110131133227.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110131133227.h...
- wizofaus 4y ago
  Pretty sure bacteria made a much more massive difference to the earth's atmosphere/ climate than humans ever have/will do. Accepted it wasn't a single species.

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kyboren 4y ago

Like all animals, we eat, fuck, and die, but humanity's ability to alter the landscape far exceeds that of alligators and beavers. Our combined and fantastically developed use of reason, tools, and written language have elevated humanity to a fundamentally different level. We're each of us now demigods and the world is our golden goose. Only humanity and celestial bodies can kill nearly all life on Earth. Only humanity can so dramatically raise atmospheric carbon dioxide PPM as we've done. Only humanity engineers earth and waterworks on hundred-km scales. Sure, it's our home planet, too and we have a right to be here and alter our environment to support our existence like every other animal does. But no other animal can fuck up the planet more than humans can and do. No other animal even comes close.

DoreenMichele 4y ago
Perhaps you've heard of the lowly ant? Climate change: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-ants-change-the-course-of-climate-change/#:~:text=The%20average%20ant%20lives%20and%20dies%20in%20less,a%20geologist%20at%20Arizona%20State%20University%20in%20Tempe https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-ants-change-the-course-of-c.... As an invasive species fucking things up for others, including humans: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.2577 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.... Ants have big impact on environment as 'ecosystem engineers' https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110131133227.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110131133227.h...
wizofaus 4y ago
Pretty sure bacteria made a much more massive difference to the earth's atmosphere/ climate than humans ever have/will do. Accepted it wasn't a single species.