• WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For the love of christ, stop saying that. Every single time someone makes this comment. We. Get. It.

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        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 our naive, entitled species exclusively.

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          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.

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          Only an idiot thinks that when we say *we are destroying the planet " they literally means the planet will explode or something. It’s clear that we mean the only part of the planet that is meaningful for us, the biosphere.

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            1 year ago

            Which we also won’t destroy. Life on earth will adapt, but we’re making it inhospitable for ourselves.

            • narp@feddit.de
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              Well, I guess all the life forms that are going extinct through the Holocene/anthropogene extinction event, which humans caused, don’t matter?

              Sure there will be life on earth and it will adapt, but don’t act like we’re not taking down whole families of plants and animals with us… because it’s already happening.