• We’re continuing to accelerate climate change for this?

    Our descendants a thousand years into the future are going to look back on this time period with absolute disgust, knowing we sleepwalked into destroying the environment potentially for the remainder of our species’ existence - and we did it for the dumbest possible reasons.

      • wewbull@feddit.uk
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        5 days ago

        In some form… Sure. 7 billion humans can die and the species can still survive.

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        Mankind has survived and caused several mass extinctions in our millions of years of existence. We are a stubborn species and have a broken build with our tool use and information transfer capabilities.

      • Call it… optimism? I don’t think we’re that easy to eradicate completely, though that future looks pretty bleak to me - for the small population that continues to exist in it…