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We have caused the Halocene extinction. Our wasteful lifestyles are the virus of the planet. The overconsumed. The technologists who think our devices and socia

We have caused the Halocene extinction. Our wasteful lifestyles are the virus of the planet. The overconsumed. The technologists who think our devices and social media and VR are a substitute to blind us from the truth. We are destroying our planet. That’s reality. Our devices and travel are our escape. “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.“ What if mankind just lives in peace and balance with nature? No plastic. Carbon balance. Nothing added annually that wouldn’t be taken back and fixed anew by nature. Greenhouse gases back at 350 ppm. What if?

jemmyw 3y ago
You could see our consumption as part of the natural dynamic. We came from nature. We are no less animal than any other animal and our actions are perfectly natural. "Humanity evolved a brain that allowed them to access previously untapped energy sources leading to population growth. This eventually led to an unsustainable population growth, shortly followed by a massive disruption in the global ecosystem and climate. However, the sudden dip in diversity led to an explosion of new species over the following 1.8 million years." It's total hubris of us to split the world into natural and artificial. The stuff in the ground that we dig up came from nature, we came from nature, so everything we produce is the result of nature. Not excusing our actions or inability to change, but also not ascribing it completely to malice or saying stuff like we should be in balance with nature which is meaningless.