• kazaika@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Every high civilisation in history thought they would witness the the end, I doubt we are the special ones to do so

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      10 hours ago

      Those civilizations thought that it was the wrath of a god or two, or some war would consume everything. We have actual scientific evidence that our completely unhinged and largely unregulated use of resources that natural creatures have no access to is destroying our planet.

      If the difference is hard to grasp then I’m starting to understand why the U.S. has undecided voters right now.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah. Statistically a small vestige of us may well survive to tell horror stories of our coming experiences.

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      10 hours ago

      They were all right though, if by ‘the world’ you mean ‘the world as we know it’.

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        7 hours ago

        Of course, when you change into “the world as we know it”, it was already “destroyed” several times in recent history by things like cars and the internet…

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        8 hours ago

        To be fair that’s valid today too. The world as we know it is ending but maybe there’ll be some mad max style pockets of civilization after

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          Or maybe it’s just the ‘we’ that’s going to be out of the equation, which is fine too I guess. Our particular form of life just isn’t that important in the grand scheme of things anyway.