• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      It’s a recurrent theme in the history of the world you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands, tens of millions of species killed, never to be seen again.

      No species ever lasts that long.

      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month 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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          1 month 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.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    We’re actually going through the 6th mass extinction right now, so actually we are kinda killing most everything on the planet, not just us.

    We should want to preserve that. Unfortunately a handful of old rich dudes don’t care.

  • Johanno@feddit.de
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    1 month ago

    Climate protection was never about saving species or eco systems.

    It is about not fucking the whole planet wide eco system so that we can’t live anymore on this planet.

    However even that we dropped for profits.

    I mean basically anything relating to energy would have costed the double amount (at least).

    Now we have also to reduce the co2 that was produced 200 years and the one that is triple the amount of the next 10 years.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    regulate billion dollar corporations and then over 99% of all pollution will stop.

    I’m not getting rid of my car, make billionaires and millionaires get rid of their private jets and make them stop dumping garbage into waterways

    • gimsy@feddit.it
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      1 month ago

      Yes and stop selling bullshit electric vehicles, there is already the solution: public transport

      Electric vehicles are another boost to the super rich car industry

        • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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          1 month ago

          Wow. Such a martyr. Willing to stay at home forever because they have been told individual cars have an impact towards climate change that you don’t believe in.

          People would rather the world burn than be inconvenienced even a little.