RE: Have we failed as a species?
February 17, 2017 at 11:10 am
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2017 at 11:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 17, 2017 at 7:45 am)ignoramus Wrote: Is it the nature of entropy that we as living beings will eventually use up the planet's resources?Someday, yeah.
Let's assume that population growth is a part of a thriving species.
The time will come (assuming no natural extinction events fall upon us randomly) where we have outgrown our home (earth).
Quote:Is this our aim? To hurry up with technology so we can piss off somewhere else after trashing our rental?I wouldn;t call it our aim, I;d call it an inevitable conequence of our resource dependency.
Quote:Is that what "other" life on other planets do? Is that the natural thing to do as a successful species?Yeah, actually. Species that escape predation become a scourge on the land with regularity, lol. Deer are destroying the forests, kitty cats are an extinction event for songbirds. Generally, there comes a point at which their unrestricted growth becomes the engine of their demise...but we human beings don;t play by the same rules that the rest of those fuckers do, do we?
Quote:I'm thinking the opposite. I'm thinking we are reckless and living beyond our means and govts are doing too little too late to save our planet, our food bowls and our atmosphere. Why? Because WE MUST BUY CHEAP STUFF FOR $2 WITH FREE DELIVERY FROM EBAY CHINA! LOL!Expertly stewarding our resources and rationing out what we have to a bare minimum won't stop that day™ from coming, it'll just give us a few extra (shittier, totally less fun) days from this day to that day.
Or maybe I'm just being sentimental and ultimately there are no rules to life and the universe ... We should not feel bad about fucking up the earth. No-one's around to judge us? Shitloads of other planets and resources out there? Who gives a shit?
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