• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People are not doing their damnedest. And it should fill you with anger.

    Unfounded optimism can be toxic,

    Humanity cannot survive with the level of anger that you wish to endeavor, we will tear each other apart before any solution comes to the foreground.

    We need optimism (and cooperation) to survive.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder exactly at what point in this unsurvivable train wreck it’ll make sense to stop singing Kumbaya and take out the pitchforks. We’re already on the way to probably killing millions of additional people from natural disasters, we’ve already killed billions of organisms and fucked our ecosystem.

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        I wonder exactly at what point in this unsurvivable train wreck it’ll make sense to stop singing Kumbaya and take out the pitchforks.

        We are a long way away from unsurvivable, no need for hysterics.

        Also, violence is always an option when survival is at stake. However, it should be the last option, and not the first option.

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          Long is a relative term. We’ve managed to prolong the date to which civilization will “survive”, but we’re still talking about migrant crises and death of millions in this century, to color in some parameters of what this version of survival means. We’re still on the path to self-destruction in single-digit generations.

          We might be “ok” once the “hysterics” boil up to produce more regulation, if they do, the difference of “when” is how much irreversible damage are we going to create and how many ripple-effect issues are we willing to accept on behalf of many generations to come.

          As Al Barlett said, "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. "

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            We’re still on the path to self-destruction in single-digit generations.

            I mean, we’ve been there since the invention of the atomic bomb, and we’re all still here to talk about it on Lemmy.

            I’m truly not saying that things cannot go to shit in a heartbeat, but my point is that we always tend to dance close to the edge but not go over it, at some point we always instinctively pull back.

            So when someone looks at an individual moment in time downturn as an inevitability to the end times, it’s just something I feel the need to push back on, as we are a long way from game over.