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[–] foo@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] blue_zephyr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] narp@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] r1veRRR@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

But it's the idiots that CONSTANTLY argue that the world will be fine. The framing of it as protection of animals/the planet/the climate makes it incredibly easy for people to pretend it's optional, not directly related to them. This isn't a hypothetical point, EVERY SINGLE climate discussion I've ever witnessed some mouthbreather has argued that "the climate will continue to exist, it doesn't need protecting".

What needs protecting isn't the planet, the ecology, the animals or plants, it's US. It's ENTIRELY an US problem.