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CrispyQ

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12. "Now we just have to do it."
Sun Nov 5, 2023, 02:16 PM
Nov 2023


Knowing how to do things & having the political will to do them are two different things. We've seen all over the planet what happens when a species overpopulates & yet we still did it while thinking we're smarter & better than the animals. Maybe this planet could support 8 billion people but not 8 billion people consuming because our economic systems demand that.

I believe in 20-30 years people will be stunned at the physical changes on our planet & the consequential social changes. Maybe our big brain will save us but it seems to me that pride & greed have about done this planet in. Not that Earth won't go on, it just won't be hospitable to us or all the other living things we depend on. Life is a circle, not a hierarchy, but we are still about to get slapped down a few pegs.

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