Climate change was first discovered in, get this, the 1960s. Scientists immediately began sounding the alarm.
Philosophers supplied the horribly accurate rejoinder that humans would be too selfish, too short-termist and too plain stupid to do a damn thing about it.
Philosophers supplied the horribly accurate rejoinder that humans would be too selfish, too short-termist and too plain stupid to do a damn thing about it.
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To once again quote my man Carlin:
"Save the planet?! We haven't even learned how to take care of ourselves yet!"
Imagine a baseball hurtling towards someone's head. The massive majority of humans wait for the baseball to hit them full in the face before doing anything.
"Save the planet?! We haven't even learned how to take care of ourselves yet!"
Imagine a baseball hurtling towards someone's head. The massive majority of humans wait for the baseball to hit them full in the face before doing anything.
And in the case of climate catastrophe, most humans haven't even been able to see the baseball at all.
But there will always remain one thing that completely bewilders me. Totally baffles me. And which is the ultimate indictment of neoliberalism.
But there will always remain one thing that completely bewilders me. Totally baffles me. And which is the ultimate indictment of neoliberalism.
What is the number one instinct of any parent or grandparent? It's to protect, love and nurture their kids and grandkids.
Yet what have we done? We've destroyed our own children and grandchildren's futures. Left them a planet which will be like hell on earth.
Yet what have we done? We've destroyed our own children and grandchildren's futures. Left them a planet which will be like hell on earth.
And you know why? Mammon. Our ways of ease are so much more important to most people than even leaving a habitat which their children and grandchildren can live in.
Same goes for how we treat animals. Same goes for how we treat workers - even, child workers and child slaves.
Same goes for how we treat animals. Same goes for how we treat workers - even, child workers and child slaves.
The God of Mammon will consume us all - and it's all those who've done the least to deserve it and the most to desperately try and wake their elders the hell up who will suffer and perish as a result.
What kind of species does this to its own children?
What kind of species does this to its own children?
Answer: us. We're a gigantic virus; a pox on anyone we come into contact with. "A bad case of fleas".
So nature will have the last laugh. It always does.
So nature will have the last laugh. It always does.
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