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[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been calling it human exceptionalism. If we found an organism that drives 150 other species extinct a day we would do our best to eradicate it permanently, but it's us so we ignore it.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

We're like a bacterial infection on Earth. We won't kill the host but it's already permanently damaged.