Goodbye World
Resource demand challenges Earth's regeneration capacity. Fish are harvested faster than their natural replacement rate. Water is being withdrawn faster than aquifers are replenished. The biosphere takes one year and nearly three months to renew what humanity exploits in one year, on this analysis."...rates of species extinctions surge to their highest levels since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago..."
extinction planet biodiversity we're fucked
posted by Deek Deekster @ 1:12 AM
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I thought the we're fucked technocrati tag was a nice touch.
This is why your post about Titan is so important. Humans have ravaged much of this planet and are actively looking at populating other planets. Mars being the first option. Once 'we' (read as 'the American govt.') have established a base on Mars, we will be able to use Nanotechnology to replicate building materials to propel 'us' further into space. What worries me is that 'we' have destroyed this planet to such a degree that, rather than mending it using funds meant for weapons and killing research, 'we' decided to go elsewhere and start all over again. Until 'we' can sort ourselves out, we don't deserve anywhere else.
Mad cow, bird flu, no fish? I guess we'll be eating Soylent Green before long after all.
i am not necessarily calling free will and choice into question exactly.. but i have been thinking about this for over thirty years now, and this is the bizarre conclusion i have reached.
we are also nature.. what we perceive as madness greed and selfishness is part of the greater plan.. how can it be otherwise?
thinking that doesn't mean i won't try and be a good boy and help all i can. but it does keep me slightly calmer.
We were given the keys to the kingdom, and we drove it into the ditch.
Some see our stewardship of the planet in terms of dominion...as the right to exploit, rather than as the duty to preserve and nurture.
It sickens me to think we are probably past the tipping point.
christianity is often held to blame for that, but i don't blame jesus or his followers for the whole domination thing.. within a couple of hundred years of jc going back to daddy, the roman empire had adopted christianity and it has had it ever since.. father of all fascism, all imperial eagles and might=right arguments stem from there.
tipping point.. yes... by the time we were born, probably. ruskin the art critic and philosopher was haunted by terrible visions of doom - he thought something had gone wrong with nature... and he was only glimpsing the beginnings of the true industrial revolution...
anyhow there are various pre-requisites for any species seeking to survive extinction and one of them is plentiful and another widespread. add humans to the rat, the cockroach, the spider and the fly... somewhere (not mars) someone will still be living some kind of degraded harsh existance, way after the conditions have ceased to exist for anything like a life of ease and joy.
"we are living like kings... these days will last forever..."
Right, but, when we found ourselves in the clutch, the attitude of entitlement sent us into the shit...rather than down the path of responsible stewardship and sustainability. And now that attitude shamelessly abounds.
I blame selfishness, in all forms, and I sense too many shortsightedly seeing the world in terms of their own existence/life-span, and not in terms of an interconnected ongoing posterity.
Humanity has/had the potential for being a healing force or a cancer. When I take a look around, the verdict ain't pretty.
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