Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden

• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sigh, when people think they are being profound but just spout the most trivial shit…

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, I don’t think I’m being profound by saying something akin to “the more things change, the more things stay the same.” I just don’t think today is all that different from the past.

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    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Again: in the past they couldn’t, even if they tried, fuck up the whole biosphere of our planet as we are doing right now.

      So no, not same as always. The underlying principle yes, but the scale was physically not possible before.

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, and sometime in the future it’ll be an even larger problem like fucking up multiple planets. Of course the problems of today are unique in their scale; they’ll also be dwarfed by problems in the future, and today will seem simple in comparison.

        There’s a reason people always think the world / society is going to end with their generation, and yet it never happens.

        You’d be incredibly lucky to witness the end of the world, it’s something people have been talking about for thousands of years.

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just like nuclear technology is no longer a threat to humanity, right? We’re dang near a hundred years there.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t that be more like “same as it ever will be”?

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