cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22819667
“If our overheating planet is a result of human greed, then it must be a special kind of greed, a kind that emerged puzzlingly late in the long history of our species and then with a sudden vengeance.”
It will stop through natural causes. Humans aren’t wired to collectively think on climate timescales.
Yup, after 8 billion or so humans have died off.
And most of the animal species; that’s the sad part.
But it’s not like it will be the first time; dinosaurs weren’t known for thinking on climate timescales either.
There isn’t an evolutionary advantage to thinking in those timescales, so no animal ever evolved them.
…yet.