The betrayal of generations from the 20th century will be remembered for thousands of years.
That is not hyperbole.
Not a good sign
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
ceenote@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
We’ll now begin our unit on “the time the people who wanted to end the world got control of the world”
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 hours ago
It’s very interesting that the nukes dropped will be mentioned, but the real death toll of the century was plain simple greed and selfishness. Those two working together have and will kill countless more in the upcoming century
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Yes, how disturbing is it that the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Japan will be most useful to historians not as a hyperbolic tragedy that stood alone but as a way to explain the much broader mass slaughter of humans that the 20th century perpetrated and locked in for thousands of years?
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 7 hours ago
But how will we get more money to the shareholders if we stop pushing humanity towards extinction!?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
see there’s your problem. shareholders. thinking of them as plural.
Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Are those generations really worse than those before it? Yes the environmental destruction is unparalleled but so were also the tools that enable that. In the Stone Age people could not have even come close to doing what we are doing eight now to the environment even if they wanted too.
The term the tragedy of the commons originally referred to English cattle herders letting their cows overgraze public land because if they don’t overgraze it some other herders would do it instead. Stories like this are everywhere in history. The Vikings cut down every single tree in Iceland and the Faroe islands when they arrived with no care for the environmental whatsoever.
Whaling, the clubbing of seals, the extinction of the dodo. There are countless examples. And if we are talking pure human to human cruelty, no war in the 20th century comes close to what the mongols did.
The people of the 20th century were not more cruel or selfish than previous ones. They were simply the first ones given the tools and ability to pollute the whole earth.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I am uninterested in comparing the moral qualities of generations. Humans are humans.
I am interested in the scale of the violence done by these generations against the earth as it will never be able to be surpassed without fully annihilating the human race.
800 years from now no one is going to care how sorry everyone was now about the damage they have done, what matters is the impact.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
we’re really just starting to feel the ramifications of the industrial age, we will not be the villains because at least we did try to do something. the robber barons are the true villains in this. they created annd exasperated the problem while creating the race to riches that continues with the oil industry ignoring the problems they create
the early years of just pumping coal exhaust from factories, acid rain from uncontrolled diesel fuel burning and the nuclear waste buildup will compound to create a truly ugly mess.
The Handford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is 586 square miles that is fucked for thousands of years. even if we find a clean way to power the world. It will keep polluting the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean for much of this time and the Federal Government keeps cutting funding for the cleanup.
in my opinion, the whole world needs to help South Americans restore the Amazon and we in North America need to develop a solution to the Pine Beetle, or start planting invasive trees to take over when they destroy all the pine forests. It should be every humans roll to plant a tree once a year. If we cared more about plant life, we’d make a huge impact now
We also need to find leaders who will embrace wind and solar as our future and tax the fuck out of carbon based energy
we can find ways to slow and possibly even reverse this process but unfortunately the current powers that be don’t give a fuck
when the oceans start consuming the big coastal cities, only then will it become a priority
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
when the oceans start consuming the big coastal cities, only then will it become a priority
Miami begs to differ lol, not that I can blame Miami, they are fucked anyways since everything is built on limestone which is very soluble to water… but I wish they would do their whole “stick their head in the sand” thing in a way that was less destructive to the rest of us.
Lojcs@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I don’t think it’s that justified to cast 20th century generations as villains as a whole. Most people definitely didn’t possess a murderous intent to erase human race. And I certainly can’t blame people for overdoing it with environmental harm when the increase in their own quality of life was tied to those technologies causing the harm. It feels like blaming a starving person who just got access to abundant food for giving themselves refeeding syndrome
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
will be remembered for thousands of years.
By whichever species takes over after we’ve rendered ourselves extinct via greed, stupidity, and stubbornness in a century or two.
it can never be surpassed
for if it doesbecause humanity will go extinct.Fixed it for you.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The word is fuck. Cannot process anything else about this post.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Speculater@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Best not to feed the Butterfly, at this point I think they do it on purpose to rile us up.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeah… it’s basically:
“I don’t see why you people get so mad about censorship that treats adults like babies!”
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 2 hours ago
how the fuck was a century with 2 world wars, the cold war, iron curtain etc. a fuck around century
Ogy@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
Because exactly those things you describe (as well as some other factors/events) were reckless, violent experimenting (ideological, military, technological). And now we’re finding out. Like I’m not sure if you’re aware but the world changed ridiculously fast during the 1900s and now the early 2000s compared to the rest of history.
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Many STEM grads are class traitors, we can’t act like academic institutions didn’t play a direct role in funnelling skilful students into military and private medsci employment while working diligently to instill as much punishment for empathy as possible into their programs.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
…Yeah…
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
So close to getting it right with Merman Heckville