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Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years (link.springer.com)
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[–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

We're here as stewards to this planet and all of her life.

No, you are not. Just stop touching things and all is good.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    And when you see an animal suffering and in need you just keep walking and pay it no mind?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

    Yeah. First rule in nature-related professions is generally to not touch. Careless touching can get the animal to be outcast or you to spread a sickness. And in the end, it's only to satisfy human kind instinct or morals anyway.

    But "touching" was meant metaphorically. Our understanding of the larger picture in nature is only starting to surface. And general consciousness is still far behind the influence we have on the world as a species.

    We have already created a garden world in europe (because it's the old continent) and have done a lot of damage in the process, the last few millennia, including "good practice" of managing woods creating only problems.

    In short: do not touch nature, unless you know exactly what you do. And we especially don't need to "manage" it.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Ah, this helps put into perspective why the West is so cooked and we're sleepwalking into WWIII, lack of empathy and total apathy. I guess this is what we deserve.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    lack of empathy and total apathy. I guess this is what we deserve.

    A good thing is to learn to differentiate between 'emotional/gut reactions' and 'empathy'. A simple example can help: who do you think is the most helpful person (aka, showing empathy) in that hypothetical situation: two witnesses faced with a tragic car accident involving a little kid being badly hurt.

    • The first witness immediately starts crying all the tears of their body, running around and shouting 'omygodomygodthatishorrible!' (which, we will probably all agree, it is) and starts blaming the driver (which maybe is to blame, or maybe not) and calling them names?
    • The second witness that focus the only thing that matters (which is not blaming anyone): the child that is hurt, and that immediately calls 911 and do it as calmly as possible in order to be able to describe as precisely as possible the exact situation to the emergency respondents?

    Ah, this helps put into perspective why the West

    Are you being serious?

    The comment you just replied to is one of of the most well grounded and sound I've read in way too long. Your... 'reaction' to it only demonstrates how badly we need to hear it a lot more often. A lot.

    Also, a warm 'hello' from the West, wherever you living your perfect and faultless existence.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Ha, certainly I was being a bit hyperbolic. Still, I will help any animal wounded and not actively being pursued by a predator. You can denigrate me for that if you'd like, but I can't stand to see any life suffer.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Wholly beside the point.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not really. It's all human nature. Some have empathy and others don't.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Which is beside my point. And acting on empathy while creating damage is egoistic.

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