• foo@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      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.