Watching Our Planet on Netflix because I'm bored as shit and nature is so cool. Like how does evolution even lead to the level of speciality for some of the plants and animals out there?
And we're killing it all. One main party in the US hates nature and doesn't think anything is wrong and the other just elected a guy who supports fracking and opposes the GND
:Agony:
When I think about nature im reminded of that one scene in LOTR where Sam sees a star and it alleviates his despair because he knows that regardless of the outcome of the quest there will still be beauty untouched and unmolested. Whatever humans do to this planet life will adapt and take on new and unknowable forms in the coming millennia, and all of that life will be just as magnificent as that which capitalism has destroyed. And the thought makes me feel less anxious about the fate of the human species.
"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."