• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 年前

    There were a couple of hundred thousand years of humans managing not to fuck up the entire planet, before the two centuries of doing so for the sake of money.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      There were periods in which we were nicer to the planet, but we’ve always been pretty horrible to each other. Even at the stage of civilization we’re at now - with all the advancements and comforts etc - we’re still going to war with each other just for the hell of it; murdering each other over shit like skin color or what we find sexually attractive; not only profiteering off the suffering of others, but actively manufacturing suffering to profiteer off.

      We really are horrible.

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        We also managed to kill off almost all the large animals thousands of years ago, come to think of it.