I don’t know if it makes people feel smart when they flippantly say,“ the earth will be fine”
I do know that she is NOT fine.
Wish I could banish that stupid phrase!

It’s not hubris you stupid piece of shit. It’s recognizing that no life on earth has any inherent value so it doesn’t matter what we do with it.

Not. It really wouldn’t. In fact that’s worse than the planet not becoming toxic and uninhabitable. Fuck both humans and everything else.

Some of what capitalism is doing to the planet will continue to produce harm long after the last human takes flight off this planet.

It has taken a very long time for the earth to get to where it is, and unless you introduce a god-figure to design it back into good health, there’s no reason to be cavalier about the planet’s resilience. Again, countless life forms are extinct for all time.

complexity of life that capitalism is extinguishing is part and parcel of what makes this planet “the earth”. I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to say even the earth’s aesthetic qualities are produced by its life forms.

No. The earth will not be fine. No. The earth isn’t just a rock. In the same way that a human life / health is impossible without the bacteria that we host / that enable our internal processes, so it is that the profundity and

We aren’t the only life here, and life on earth has quite literally co-created the planet. I can’t see why this “it will right itself” opinion is so popular even among people who imagine themselves “progressive”. Even if it makes sense, what function does it play as a popular refrain?

Arctic ice loss, rising sea level, loss of resources, littered with garbage and shrapnel, AMOC collapse, 500 nuclear reactors melting down; they’re called forever chemicals for a reason, they will be here for eons.

You both are fucking idiots. I hope keep up this attitude when collapse marauders kill you, steal your food, and rape your wives and daughters in front of you.

Except for the fact there’s nothing after this. The planet is dying. Everything is going extinct. You can keep your watering eyes about mass death and destruction and dreams about starvation to yourself.

Except that’s not happening. Extinction means extinction.