People suck -- let's hope a mega virus kills us all so the rest of
the species out there can recover from our inflicted horrors.
And
why? When
I read shit like
this:
But let's add:
We use copious amounts of non-renewable carbon based fuels while
destroying the planet to acquire it. And we release the carbon into
the atmosphere where it is causing massive climate change as well as
acidifying the ocean.
We are producing and discarding prodigious amounts of single use
plastics, which we release haphazardly into our environment with no
strategy on how to recycle safely the refuse that results.
We consume and discard vast amounts of planned obsolete technical and
consumer crap that require massive amounts of toxic materials that
are next to impossible to recycle.
We invented nuclear bombs and energy and have no way to safely
dispose of the radioactive waste.
We are a cruel and insensitive species with little empathy for the
species we devour and on which we inflict untold amounts of pain,
including even on our own species.
We destroy rain forests, overgraze lands, and deplete ancient
aquifers which will take thousands of years to recharge so people can
stuff themselves with Big Macs.
We are a largely ignorant and superstitious species too stupid to
realize we are reproducing ourselves exponentially and eating the
planet whole much like a cancerous virus.
And we are too dangerous because we believe our minds and ability to
cogitate somehow makes us an exceptional species that can control
nature; but have no idea that for every change we make, we create
even greater consequences.
Yes, I am one of us too -- as I sit here on my laptop spouting these
platitudes, pretending I am doing something meaningful through token
recycling, and donating to, and supporting "humanitarian"
causes. But these acts are merely trying to put a band-aid on a
severed artery.
But I am too much a coward to opt out, and too curious in a morbid in
a way (like when we slow down to gawk when we drive past a car
accident) to not want to watch the disaster unfold.
The only folks on the planet that live ecologically sustainable lives
are the few indigenous tribes left in places like the Amazon and New
Guinea who have learned to live within their environments. Hopefully
the coming catastrophe can spare them.
So much for my diatribe.
