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submitted 1 year ago by awderon@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The next years are going to be fun… The world is burning while the fossil fuel industry is chugging along like everything is great as long as you buy enough co2 credits.

I’m scared in what kind of world my children will have to live in…

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[-] Izzent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Obviously the dude is not a biologist... Earth is gonna be fine long term, the other species are gonna be fine long term. The only thing we're running into the ground is ourselves.

Edit: check out all these clowns below who have a human superiority complex so inflated that they believe the earth will die with us 😂🤡

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Earth is gonna be fine long term

It's a metaphor.

Like when people say "The economy is in trouble", no one really cares about the economy itself. The economy will be fine. Even if it crashes by 90%, it's still an economy, right?

What we mean when we use these metaphors is, how the life of people living in these systems will be affected.

Maybe a better analogy to the title is the life support system of a spaceship. If that system flashes you with warning lights, you'll be worried, but not because the spaceship itself is in trouble. It will travel through space and time just fine, eons after it's passengers have suffocated.

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

A better way to phrase this, is that you believe humans deserve to live because of your own ego about your worth compared to the entire planet. Carry on.

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's maybe what you read, but not what I said. Putting words in mouths is a dishonest approach to conversation. Can we do better, please?

The idea was based on the assumption that one does not want humans to suffer.

Now when people talk about some 'vital signs' of a system in which humans live, be it economy, space ship or planet, it is usually meant and understood that they care about the wellbeing of the inhabitants, not about the state of the soulless system, even if that's what they literally say. It's a metaphor.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The species driven extinct by climate change won't be fine

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Have you heard of evolution or are you one of those loons that believe "god" placed a set number of species on the planet and that's all there will ever be? Asking for a friend.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wtf are you talking about?

[-] SumWon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Evolution works on very long time spans. Anthropomorphic climate change will be way too fast for species to evolve and adapt. I highly doubt all life will ever be wiped out on Earth, but we might lose 99% of current species with new species evolving over time. This is our dinosaur asteroid moment for sure.

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

And yet, life survived even the asteroid. It's arrogant as all hell to believe we have more destructive power than that asteroid. Or that we deserve to live on a planet we are destroying.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely noone ever claimed that global warming was going to wipe out life on earth

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"earth's vital signs blinking red"

Your reading comprehension is competitive... amongst rocks.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We are living through a mass extinction event right now. We have driven hundreds of species extinct even before getting deeply into the effects of climate change so it's fascinating that you think that even more severe environmental change will harm no species at all.

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

You clearly love putting words in people's mouths. Utterly unrelated to what I said. Congrats on your irrelevance.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do you talk like this?

"Asking for a friend"

It's very "holds up spork"

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter what I say here, you trolls will downvote it. So have at it.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It's more to do with posting moronic shit, but you do you

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