> What difference does it make if "we" or other spiecies (or natural events) have agency in that? My usage wrt human agency implies will, cognition and self-re

> What difference does it make if "we" or other spiecies (or natural events) have agency in that? My usage wrt human agency implies will, cognition and self-reflection. Ecological exhaustion is not inevitable like with a cosmic catastrophe, because economic decision makers and consumers will it so. "Legally" speaking, we can be held responsible. > So essentially one of your feeling (happiness) is linked to your other feelings in some sort of a loop, correct? It is linked to the widespread disregard of sanity and self-regulation and more specifically to the ongoing and upcoming damage this causes. We are clinging on to broken systems (food, energy, travel, throwaway electronics, general level of consumption, neoliberal narrative) thinking it can go on forever. I don't believe in karma, but I do believe in self-correcting systems. And the biosphere is one. Meanwhile chief capitalists are obsessed with childish or cultish ideas of colonizing Mars (lol), building kitsch cities or conquering the earth with AGI. That said, I also think there's a timeline in which a suitable AGI really does save us and other life forms from ourselves, but it's a fundamentally non-democratic process and a huge gamble, perhaps the last one we will ever make.