• ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    From the late great George Carlin: “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

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        Life on earth has been through far worse than humans and recovered (in a few million years).

        Different species will fill the available ecological niches.

        Life will survive.

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          Nobody is claiming or worried that all life will go extinct. What sucks is that we are fucking over all the animals that we know and love. If elephants go extinct, there will never be elephants again. Same with whales and koalas and sloths and bees. They will all be gone forever like dinosaurs and dodo birds and thylacines and trilobites.

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            Who is passing blame?

            It’s our fault we are here, it’s our fault this happened, it’s our fault when we are finally gone.

            But life itself will adapt, and overcome this obstacle, just like it has countless times before, and will countless times again.

            Personally I believe that our lasting impact will be plastics, which will get compressed by time and become the “rocket fuel” of the next species to gain full sentience, which will allow them to explore the galaxy.

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            Pointing out the evolution will continue life on earth is not passing the buck. It is counter-acting the ludicrous and embarrassing fear-mongering and shaming that was taken from a comedian and held up as gospel. George Carlin isn’t wrong. He was just an asshole and his perspective sucked.

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        The jellyfish, mosquitoes, mold, sea urchins, flies, algae, fungi and cockroaches will probably thrive. That’s a good foundation for evolution to start a new ecosystem, isn’t it?
        This is the kind of hope I am clinging to this year.