• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but we’re going to rape the shit out of this planet until it’s a lifeless husk. It is in our nature. And it’s not like we have to rape the whole thing. Just the surface.

    Even if we got really good at recycling, we’ll always produce waste and use resources that can’t be reproduced in a reasonable timeframe. 8 billion of us and counting. Raping.

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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      18 hours ago

      It is in our nature

      No dumb dumb, it’s capitalism. A temporary system that has a beginning, and will in one way or another, end. We can change things. You’re not a slave to some nebulous “human nature”. Now, log off, stop doom scrolling, and go do something about it

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        No dumb dumb, it’s capitalism.

        Is capitalism the only reason we produce waste? If capitalism ended tomorrow, so would all our consumption and production of unnatural material?

        Use common sense, my bro. The only way we aren’t damaging the ecosystem is if we turn back into animals and the only waste we produce is feces. This isn’t rocket science.

    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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      1 day ago

      Its not our nature, this entire thing is huffing the momentum of a couple thousand rich assholes who own everything. What we are wired to do is not change jack shit until we get fucked up. If we could conquer that and throw these assholes out you’ll see a better world in a single generation.

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        11 hours ago

        Eh. Still 8 billion people and counting consuming and generating unnatural waste.

        We will always be chipping away at our environment unless we turn back into animals and the only waste we produce is organic.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        1 day ago

        been thinking about this a lot, feeling so accelerationist because of it.

        maybe it is for the best things are getting worse much quicker.

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          1 day ago

          Mood AF. I hate feeling this way, but I almost feel things need to get worse before they get better.

          I won’t actively work towards that, and I’ll work to make my community and city a better place in the midst of that. But I think humanity will only change when things are really drastic.