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That's not fair at all.
Humans suck. Not Earth. Difference. Even though many to most humans, self-important as we are, readily conflate the two. The Earth was a bountiful paradise for a long, long time until us.
Don't blame the Earth because one random malignant mutation metastasized on it.
She's one of our victims, too. I don't worry for her though, she's winding up to address the surface nuisance that is humanity as we speak. Not her first rodeo, and not her last.
Sounds a bit Malthusian.
Human beings differ from other animals in that we have language and the capacity to learn and develop culture.
Capitalism is a system that enforces greed and selfishness. Those values aren’t inherent to human beings. They’re just what we’ve been taught to live under in order to survive.
But there are other ways of being and living. We can learn to live in sustainable ways, and to live in cooperation with each other instead of competition.
Other animals learn, use language, and develop culture.
Do they have a flag?
I understood that reference