Dirt owl said this once and it's permanently burned in my memory
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i will keep saying it until the biosphere dies: we have to kill the people responsible and we need to do it now. we are out of time.
we have been out of time for a while.
Talking about this with libs is infuriating.
"Okay so there's a very limited group of people who own everything and are actively trying to kill all life so they can have slightly more money they won't even be able to spend"
"Yes"
"And you oppose these people and think they must be stopped"
"Yes"
"And they control the government at all levels so they cannot be stopped by our electoral democracy"
"Yes"
"So we should hunt them down and kill them, then redistribute their ill-gotten gains to fight the climate apocalypse"
"NO that is GOMMULIST AUTHORITARIANISM"
As much as I enjoy the catharsis of imagining confronting people, it's the machinery that must die. But don't worry, for every 5 pipelines that are destroyed or factories leveled, the ecowarriors can kick one CEO's door down as a treat
tbh idk how to have hope anymore. I am like mid-millennial & have lived through so many events where I’ve thought “now this is what will get them to shape up” and it never does. It never does. It keeps ratcheting toward doom and it does not ever let up.
Getting white people to view nature as something other than an inexhaustible resource from which infinite materials can be drawn and into which infinite waste can be dumped challenge: impossible
The pinnacle of the horror of "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality," well one of several peaks, including one that (CW: extreme techbro SV power fantasy)
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turns Herminone into a zombie and then the narration makes a rhetorical argument for "ethical" necrophilia,
was when Rationalist Harry ascends to ultimate euphoria and looks out into the cosmos and sees nothing but resource nodes to exploit and turn into treats for all of the rest of time.
I couldn't even get through a sporking of HPMOR without wanting to toss my phone across the room. It figures that the self-proclaimed Most Rational People can't see the universe as anything more than a 4X game. Natural complexity is difficult to reduce to a set of KPIs.
can't see the universe as anything more than a 4X game
They also can't see people are more than resources to exploit, either. Very convenient for Herminone to have that tragic death where her reanimated body could be used for Magical Realm purposes.
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The realest shit that's ever been said. The amount of genocides to get to this point. The amount of living creatures we murked, the amount of living creatures we consume every year all to fuel a slow and painful death spiral.
Me, on the come up of realizing I took like twice as much acid as I meant to, watching a nature documentary and seeing footage of the vast expanses of bleached coral and having my temporarily unified neutral net reckon with the reality that I am seeing the death of beauty:
I already didn't really kill bugs in the house but for like a year after that I didn't even get rid of house spiders in the corners, I'd see their cobwebs and be like "good for you buddy keep living," I was in bad shape
There is a wasp nest on my balcony. It is their balcony now, I feed them
Humanity: Can I have cognition?
Nature: So you can better cope with environmental stressors?
Humanity: Yeeeeeees.
(Instead cranks up the environmental stressors to 11 like a boss)research native plants in your area, and recognize invasives, and plant native plants (KILL YOUR SHITT ASS STERILE BARREN LAWN TO DO IT TOO) all over, including in parks and anywhere you can. You can probably find seeds from naturally growing native plants in local areas and parks and unkempt portions of things without having to buy, but might can buy too. dont take more than 15% of seeds from a given plant (so it can reseed locally) but spread them around. most bugs are evolved very specifically into a niche and need whatever plant or species/genera and cant subsist or reproduce without them. It is base of the food chain. Native plants, evolved for the environment, are very hardy and require very little maintenance if any at all.
it is one of the simplest and cheapest ways to help and feel good about contributing to making the world better. it is also therapeutic and nice to work with and learn about plants and help them grow and find and learn about the bugs that use them and become reconnected with your local ecosystem. Can give extra seeds you don't plant to other people in your area too.
