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The stubborn refusal to slightly inconvenience ourselves by foregoing inessential consumption is much more telling of our lack of ambition. Fucking up the plane
by RGamma 3y ago
The stubborn refusal to slightly inconvenience ourselves by foregoing inessential consumption is much more telling of our lack of ambition. Fucking up the planet and the non-human life on it is simply too convenient.
- dr_dshiv 3y agoMaking it an emotional issue is much too convenient. Many people are trying to actively ban science on geoengineering, that’s the context. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/call-for-non-use-agreement-solar-geoengineering https://www.uu.nl/en/news/call-for-non-use-agreement-solar-g...
- TeMPOraL 3y ago"The stubborn refusal to slightly inconvenience ourselves by foregoing inessential consumption" is the force behind of all scientific, technological and social progress. Without it, we'd be just another animal species frolicking in the forests and dying horrific deaths at the hands of other predators or pathogens.
- RGamma 3y agoI used "inessential" as a shorthand for "expendable when judged by some sensible measure of ecosystem and QoL impact", not in an absolute sense. I.e. antibiotics, home heating or some forms of transport wouldn't be inessential under that definition, but giant hoards of factory farmed meat, large private yacht fleets or the insanity that is the status quo of daily work commute would be.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoNow we're just another animal species frolicking in urban jungles dying at our own hands. Progress!
- TeMPOraL 3y agoProgress indeed, because even ignoring anything else, we at least live much happier lives, and die much less brutally, than we did in the state of nature.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoFor now!