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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 fantasticall
by 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 agoPerhaps 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 agoPretty 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.