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[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I wonder which humans are the virus 🤔

[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

Idk I’m leaning towards the idea that it’s mathematically inevitable.

No matter what societal structure you have, if your ultimate goal is to become type 3 civilization, you want to grow efficiently with scale. The only way to do this is by using templates/cookie cutters/removing individuality/ authoritarian. This inevitably leads to ignoring natural habitats and laying out your mass-produced factory lines.

Also because of entropy, this kind of system will inevitably be destroyed. And power vacuum, new faction swarm in, the cycle repeats.

Life is just an entropy machine created by entropy after all…

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who invented capitalism again?

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[+] DmMacniel@feddit.org -13 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.

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[+] kingofras@lemmy.world -14 points 1 week ago

Humans can’t do anything but capitalism due to our need to differentiate from our peers and having massive egos that prevent us from truly sharing wealth. Mine is bigger than yours has been a thing for as long as we have history records.

We are the virus, because we uphold capitalism as the longest lasting form of “peace”time economy. Yes there are alternatives, but all of them would result in more peace on the one hand and gang-wars and multiple mass genocides on the other.

Earth is also a virus incubator. Eventually nature does its thing. Like right now, and then we have an extinction level event.

If we’re not the virus, then why is Gaia acting like it has a fever of at least +1.5ºC likely +3ºC in less than 20 years?

And that ego is also the reason why accepting responsibility is very hard.

Best we can do is using capitalism to create better alternatives like the way the cost of solar panels has made solar the cheapest energy faster than any other energy revolution.

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