Progressive Politics

It keeps blowing past already dire estimates. Even our scientists no greedy fuck sociopath with power actually listens to understandably keeps underestimating the breadth and depth of what our reckless, thoughtless growth is doing to our only fishbowl.

It couldn't be any clearer that our species has absolutely no idea what we're doing, and is overtly hostile to voices of reason calling for homeostasis/equilibrium over proudly reckless growth/metastasis on a finite world.

Honestly, I think this may be one of those great filters that explain why the galaxy isn't teeming with the signals of advanced civilizations. A species gets just barely smart enough to devise technological conveniences, but is still too bone dead stooooopid to even consider heeding the potential ecological consequences of their use/overuse of those technologies on the habitat they're wholly dependant on. Hi, we're humanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

https://youtu.be/UjtOGPJ0URM?si=R3BoMou_zOXgeIf3

As someone who loves the messages and hope of Star Trek, it's become abundantly clear to me that, in our current form, we're never going to spread meaningfully off this rock. We couldn't even stop fucking up the ONLY optimal, friendly habitat in the cosmos that we will ever know. One that only requires "stop being greedy fucks and stop shitting where you sleep."

Yeah, we're going to establish multigenerational colonies of dozens/hundreds on worlds where a single meaningful fuckup means everybody dies instantly. /s Have you met us?