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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok doomer. I love how convenient the "It's too late! We're already fucked and we'll never change!" narrative is for just sitting back and doing nothing to make things better. I understand it's hard, so live checked out and in a spiral of fear and anger at humanity if you want while those of us who give a shit try to fight back and make changes.

Humans aren't a monolith, and putting yourself over anyone else isn't a trait inherent to humanity. Plenty of cultures value the group over the individual, just not America, and America is paying for it as it sets itself on fire.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The Earth's climate is a monolith, one big system we are all subject to, and this is a pass fail test for the species. Feel free to tell the CAT 6 hurricanes about your nation's carbon footprint if you think it will help.

I'm not reveling in the doom, I'm living life, aware the outcome for this species is bleak. I don't respect self-delusion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

This species has been at the brink of what it thought was surely economic, ecological, and societal collapse a bunch of times in its existence.

Maybe we’ll get past this one, or maybe Malthus will have turned out to be right.