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coti

(4,612 posts)
7. They might just be the greatest die-ers in history
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 08:07 PM
Mar 2020

Or the worst...the biggest? Smallest? Cheapest? Most beautiful? Never know with Trump.

ffr

(22,669 posts)
9. For context though, humans are still adding 220,000 people to Earth every day. Net.
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 08:25 PM
Mar 2020

It's incredible to see how fast we're adding humans to this planet. The coronavirus has nothing on us. We're apparently the infection this planet cannot get over.

And so far, most of the people contracting the virus are surviving. So that's a positive.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. I read a story about wild animals coming into the empty streets
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 08:48 PM
Mar 2020

of quiet, but once bustling cities. We are not killing the planet, we are killing ourselves and a few other animal species. The planet will keep moving on once we are dead.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
11. IMO, it is not incredible to see how fast we are adding humans
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 08:55 PM
Mar 2020

it is disheartening, maddening and demoralizing.

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