Saudi Arabia officials said on Sunday that more than 1,300 Muslims died during the Hajj pilgrimage, which took place during intense heat, and that most of th...
Valid question, but worse has happened to the planet before, and that was without us around. Capitalism has lead us to snub our hopes and dreams, but it was these things that created the wonders of our sciences and brought us to project ourselves into the stars. Where there's a will, there's a way.
i mean yeah but we werent around to die when the planet was a smouldering ball of magma. and i doubt we would be able to do anything about it either if we were around
Every turn of human history has resulted in mass death of often catastrophic proportions, and that sucks and it's depressing. The point is, we feel dis-empowered by a behemoth system because we're told stories about how individual actions (think great man of history narratives, individualism as a culture, etc.) are the only solution, when the reality of history is that mass movements produce results. Necessity is the mother of all innovation, and the heat will soon produce conditions that make business as usual stop in it's tracks - capitalism cannot escape this. Heck, if people are having heat stroke in Mecca, soon US imperial forces will start suffering mass heat casualties as well. If the US military can't function, well there goes one of the largest polluters on the planet!
Valid question, but worse has happened to the planet before, and that was without us around. Capitalism has lead us to snub our hopes and dreams, but it was these things that created the wonders of our sciences and brought us to project ourselves into the stars. Where there's a will, there's a way.
i mean yeah but we werent around to die when the planet was a smouldering ball of magma. and i doubt we would be able to do anything about it either if we were around
Every turn of human history has resulted in mass death of often catastrophic proportions, and that sucks and it's depressing. The point is, we feel dis-empowered by a behemoth system because we're told stories about how individual actions (think great man of history narratives, individualism as a culture, etc.) are the only solution, when the reality of history is that mass movements produce results. Necessity is the mother of all innovation, and the heat will soon produce conditions that make business as usual stop in it's tracks - capitalism cannot escape this. Heck, if people are having heat stroke in Mecca, soon US imperial forces will start suffering mass heat casualties as well. If the US military can't function, well there goes one of the largest polluters on the planet!