The earth will be ok. One day we'll be gone and she'll be just fine.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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Its too bad I don't care about the rock we're floating around in space on and mostly care about me and my loved ones.
This is a dumb framing. People want to stop climate change to protect themselves and their loved ones from having to live in an inhospitable hellscape and doom humanity to extinction, not because of an emotional connection to the actual planet.
To me it's ridiculous that we have no reverence for our actual, objective God: the living Earth.
All the fairy tale imaginary sky daddies people kill other people over while actively desecrating our factual creator with abandon.
We're so weird. We have a creator. The natural world. And we've been in a hot war with that only actual God of humans for about a quarter millenia, lol.
We'll lose handily. And life will go on.
That's a generalisation.
Plenty of people have reverence for the natural world.
Certainly not plenty, given what's happening.
And I don't mean empty rhetorical reverence.
Reverence would mean having a zero to positive net environmental impact. Like the Native Americans. They weren't perfect or necessarily peaceful between one another, but they practiced reverence towards the natural world.
Those with practiced reverence towards the natural world don't fare well amongst our species. We take humble coexistence with the Earth as weakness like clockwork. We jail them for ecoterrorism and genocide their cultures because they get in the way of economic and population metastasis, sadly because we consider our God to be subject to us and not the other way around as we're going to learn in the coming decades by our own actions and hubris.
I mean "learn" loosely. Sadly many wouldn't admit to themselves we were wrong or abandon currency as their god even if a CAT 6 just hurled a bus at their head.
That's subjective as it depends on your definition of reverence and of plenty.
That said, it's a very good point you raised initially and I wholeheartedly agree that it's a bit weird.
I agree that the natural world is, for all intents and purposes, analogous to a god.
I also agree that everyone, particularly the most pious of us, seem determined to disregard this god.
Religion is the wrong word, but I do wish that there was more focus on building appreciation for the natural world.
I'm reminded of the "solar punk" movement. There's an instance slrpnk.net which collates some of these ideas.
Unless there's a longer dormant period where this is contagious, but shows no symptoms, this disease kills too quickly to become a world pandemic.
Anyone that's played plague Inc knows how this goes. It's not a winning strategy.
Yeah but one of these days a virus is going to get smart and start up in New Zealand and Madagascar. Chuck in a long asymptomatic (edit: contagious period) and game over.
Come to think of it, why haven't viruses done this yet? What are they, stupid?
we could all just move to greenland and close the ports
Oh shit bro delete this. We don't need to be giving Trump any ideas.
It's a bit of a toss up for me between staying in virus plagued USA or locating to Trump's new monarchy in Greenland.
Well this comment didn't age well.
Hello! I'm from New Zealand. Why is the scenario of a virus starting here a bad thing?