• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do we? Because the absolutely astonishing sense of self-importance humans have would indicate otherwise.

    Other beings live here, and while humans fuck humans over in the name of greed and power, we bulldoze entire ecosystems without any consideration for the other creatures that lived here whatsoever.

    No, you’re wrong. Most humans live, act, and speak as if the entire world, hell the entire universe, should be bent to better serve ourselves exclusively.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s a thought-terminating cliche that serves to downplay the problem because “hurr durr the animals will be okay” (even though they actually won’t since we’re in the middle of the Anthropocene mass extinction, but never mind that) and to act as a derailment tactic.

      • kava@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Nature will inevitably adjust. This isn’t the first mass extinction and it won’t be the last. I’m more concerned about agriculture and how the changing climate could lead to mass starvation, refugee issues, etc. The animals can inherit the Earth after we blow ourselves up with nukes.