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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Destroying the planet is not really a thing

Also, can everyone please shut the fuck up with the "Well ACKSHUALLY, you're not destroying the literal ball of rock and magma so you're not destroying the planet". Fuck you, you know what it means.

[–] Ropianos@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I meant "destroy the planet" as in lifeless/only single celled organisms.

And you can kind of see humanity as "just another big asteroid impact". Nature will recover competeley over the next million years or so. That's what I meant with mass extinctions being kind of inconsequential for the planet as a whole on geological time scales.

Obviously mass extinctions are also bad besides their effect on human society, I just meant that that is mostly a spiritual one thats hard to measure, about lost potential and eradicating a species. As a thought experiment, is eradicating a disease, a form of life, inherently negative? Mosquitoes? Do you agree that it's a big achievement that we eradicated small pox? What if we eradicate all existing diseases?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mass extinctions are different. We should be aiming to never have any more mass extinctions ever.

[–] Ropianos@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I guess that was a bit of a strawman. Obviously mass extinctions are bad.