"The Planet will be here we'll be long gone, just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac, the planet will shake us off. Like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance"
I would like to explain my downvote.
This quote is part of a stand up comedy by George Carlin that was performed many decades ago. When I saw it on yt I really liked it.
This quote here, out of context is pure doomerism.
Then I suppose I'm a doomerist? Is that a word? In the next 100 years it's going to become too hot to live for a billion people, the seas are going to displace a billion, and food won't grow because we destroyed the soil and crops die from drought. A perfect recipe for some mega disasters that some people believe they can avoid using their wealth. And that's using the low estimate for planet temperature increase due to just what humans have caused. The planet will be just fine. The people are fucked. And I feel awful we're taking so many beautiful species with us.
I could say, I do share your anxiety about what will happen in the near future. Still, personally, I don't like doomerism because imo it restricts our collective imagination towards solutions.
Apart from that, lets keep in mind that this is an article about amphibians specifically, not about saving the planet or humans in general.
We don't need imaginative solutions, we already have the answers.
This is an open-book test and we continue to fail.
Right there with you my friend, we already have the answers, we actively chose not to implement them at any point since we've known about carbon global warming since around 1896.
The answers are out there, but one problem is that we - the people - expect that those in power will implement them, and they don't.
So, we need imaginative solutions, in order for these fixes to be implemented.
We have even imaginative solutions, to every current and future problem.
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I liked this bit by Carlin originally but the more I've thought about it over the years, the less I like it because it's actually pretty fucking selfish and human-centric. Sure, we're fucked and this ball of dirt and water will still be here. But we're taking everything else with us too. The bees didn't make plastic, or cut down rainforests, or fish the oceans dry. But they're fucked too, along with the people that did those things.
Sure, the planet is fine and the people are fucked. Humans going extinct is a nice thought, we deserve it. But that's no excuse to just give up and let the dominoes fall as far as everything else on this planet goes.
I like Carlin a lot but this one is almost saying "ah well fuck it, let them fill the air with smog and cut down all the forests, who cares. The scarred, uninhabitable earth will still be here, so what's the point?"
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