• Nudding@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I disagree. Humans have been a net negative force since before agriculture. How many megafauna did we hunt to extinction so that we could spread?

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      10 months ago

      We may all have the potential to become Wendigo but that’s not all we are. It’s not all that we have been either. Braiding Sweetgrass is an interesting book on this subject. You can probably find a copy at a library if you’d like an in depth perspective from an indigenous person.

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        10 months ago

        We have caused a 6th mass extinction event. We are comparable to a meteor capable of almost sterilizing the planet, or a super volcano altering time on a geological scale. I pray we burn ourselves out before we can spread to other planets.