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Nature isn't magic, and our species has exterminated enough species and ecosystems to respect how fragile it is. And while you speak of nature at large, we ten
by shadowgovt 4y ago
Nature isn't magic, and our species has exterminated enough species and ecosystems to respect how fragile it is.
And while you speak of nature at large, we tend to care more about subsets of it. Life, in the large, survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, but a rock from space could easily fuck with nature in a way that it wouldn't "bounce back" in any way relevant to us.
- rhacker 4y agoBut that's also a major problem. We have deemed life so unimportant, that if Russia wants San Francisco obliterated tomorrow, they have the power to do that. Literally nothing can stop them if they are hell-bent on that, damn the consequences. I think the only people that realize things like this are those that have lost others. Perhaps by mistake even- perhaps especially - his hand slipped and he is dead now. Someone's wife out there is thinking that ALL the time. Perhaps in a year we'll be mourning permanently for New York like that.