That was going to be the case either way. In fact we have pretty much already blown through that
Well yes but thats not a binary situation, is it. We can fuck up future of our kids a lot, a lot more or way a lot more. And so on.
Anyway, our descendants will hate current generations for what we have 'achieved' with the only place we can realistically live en masse for next 1000 years at least, almost all in in past 20 years, I'd say rightfully.
But as long as their stocks are up many folks here properly don't give a fuck. Tells you something too, don't put automatic morality into folks just because they have above-average intelligence, selfishness is a very powerful emotion from which none of us is completely immune from.
So, screw the planet?
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In the words of George Carlin: “The planet will be fine. The people are fucked.”
Perhaps that was the problem with the messaging from the start, it didn’t appeal to people’s selfish nature enough.
"The planet" has always been about humanity. Of course floating rocks in space will be fine for billions of years.
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