• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    There have been many extinction events, and we won’t be the first “nature based extinction event” the planet has seen either.

    Just one of the dumber ones.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Others have been fairly random. GRBs sterilizing half the planet, asteroid impacts, simple microbiological species fighting for resources whilst unknowingly making their environments unlivable, etc., etc.

      In this case, the writing has been on the wall for decades, completely preventable, but here we are barrelling into it head first none-the-less. Dumber indeed.

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        5 months ago

        Hardly. We conserve when we want to.

        The problem is that not everyone shares the same values, and so there are people who are willing to let some species go in exchange for a more comfortable lifestyle (with “more comfortable” in some cases meaning “not starving to death”). Values aren’t objective.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          Sorry, I was absolutely dehumanizing and generalizing us as a species. Individually, you’re absolutely right, but the people who need to make the tough decisions to save us all won’t make them and will selfishly take us all into the end with them. Differentiating the subjective opinions and values, at the end of the day, doesn’t really matter.