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The memes of the climate

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The climate of the memes of the climate!

Planet is on fire!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why care if humans go extinct?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Even though things seem shitty now. I think that, on average, humanity's story is one of self-improvement. This Good Place quote comes to mind:

What matters isn't if people are good or bad. What matters is if they are trying to be better today than they were yesterday.

I think humanity is trying to be better today than it was yesterday. Human history is a story of more and more types of people being given more and more rights. Of slowly putting down our rocks and spears and guns and trying to live together. Of learning to care for nature while holding the power to destroy it. We've had backslides, but overall we've come a long way from the Apes we once were.

I think humanity deserves the chance to keep trying to better itself. I hope we get to the point where we are good enough to give ourselves that chance. As another scene from Good Place put it:

Come on dummy, faster.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I unironically agree with the premise.

[–] Sigh_Bafanada 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm kinda thankful that even if we kill ourselves off and most life on Earth, it's almost certain that life will come back in full eventually. We'd have to do some real Earth -shattering stuff to prevent that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I argue this point all the time and no one ever likes it. In order to eternally prevent as much suffering as possible, we need to cause a vacuum decay event. Otherwise something is always going to evolve to take humans place and then we're in the same shitty boat.

Edit: just realised you were saying that was bad, oof

[–] magikmw 2 points 1 year ago

TIL about vacuum decay. Thanks for sending me on that wiki trip.

[–] volodymyr 2 points 1 year ago

That's nice because it is always hard to find motivation for fundamental sciences. Stopping all suffering for good is so honorable! Particle physisics should include it in grant proposals.