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intrepidity

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16. I wonder if Religion isn't fully culpable

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 03:08 PM

Jul 2022

Absent the fairy tale that trivializes the destruction of this planet, I wonder if just greed and envy could have caused as much destruction. I doubt it.

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Scottish scientists have discovered a catastrophic loss of life in our oceans [View all] superpatriotman Jul 2022 OP

Humans fuck up everything. Elessar Zappa Jul 2022 #1

It's too late Lochloosa Jul 2022 #2

It is if we give up mahina Jul 2022 #3

Give up what? We are incapable of doing what needs to be done. NewHendoLib Jul 2022 #5

Yes it's been about money and greed on the part of some mahina Jul 2022 #48

yes we do - and it is too late. We are too narcissistic as a species - and learn nothing from the NewHendoLib Jul 2022 #4

Yep, tragically very sad. 7wo7rees Jul 2022 #53

Greed, Envy, and Religion will all contribute to our demise. And there ain't walkingman Jul 2022 #7

I wonder if Religion isn't fully culpable intrepidity Jul 2022 #16

I think you're right. FoxNewsSucks Jul 2022 #23

I say/think this about five times a day NJCher Jul 2022 #28

8 BILLION IS TOO MANY. roamer65 Jul 2022 #6

"Humanity will probably survive" Triloon Jul 2022 #8

It won't be pretty. roamer65 Jul 2022 #10

Where will they get their goods and services? Mr. Evil Jul 2022 #19

It's people!!!! roamer65 Jul 2022 #24

"World Made by Hand". SergeStorms Jul 2022 #44

Those billionaires will Traildogbob Jul 2022 #30

Except for those locked in their bunkers. Mr. Evil Jul 2022 #37

Got that right. Traildogbob Jul 2022 #38

We could survive with 8 billion if Elessar Zappa Jul 2022 #11

Possibly, but I'm not confident of it. roamer65 Jul 2022 #14

"a mere fraction" Another Jackalope Jul 2022 #42

of course they have RussBLib Jul 2022 #9

Glad to see this wording intrepidity Jul 2022 #12

Very appropriate quote, intrepidity. 70sEraVet Jul 2022 #22

Prescient cilla4progress Jul 2022 #31

Humans are not sufficiently intelligent Mysterian Jul 2022 #13

"I have met the horsemen of the Apocalypse, and it is us." roamer65 Jul 2022 #15

I am not finding any other peer reviewed studies of this Thtwudbeme Jul 2022 #17

I went to the Foundation's website, and this is not what they are saying. Native Jul 2022 #40

The 90% by 2045 figure is based on a 1% decline... joshcryer Jul 2022 #49

Thanks for this. I didn't bother to check what was on their website after Native Jul 2022 #52

The extinctions and loss of biodiversity because of humanity are ultimately more defining PufPuf23 Jul 2022 #18

So, in 20 years: dalton99a Jul 2022 #20

Less than 200 years of industry to destroy a planet superpatriotman Jul 2022 #21

The planet will survive. FoxNewsSucks Jul 2022 #25

Indeed. jeffreyi Jul 2022 #26

No, eventually enough people will die. Dysfunctional Jul 2022 #27

Yeah, like the Eloi and Morlocks Brenda Jul 2022 #54

We never learned after we polluted the oceans with mercury Ohioboy Jul 2022 #29

Yup, and it bioaccumulates up the food chain. Don't eat fish that eat other fish! SunSeeker Jul 2022 #36

I am afraid to go look at my lavender cilla4progress Jul 2022 #32

Can we farm plankton? Clone it? Ban pollutants? (good luck with that.) housecat Jul 2022 #33

Blissful ignorance has its advantages ramapo Jul 2022 #34

Humanity had a Garden of Eden, and shit all over it. nt SunSeeker Jul 2022 #35

I have dived all over the world for over 40 years and the bloom JCMach1 Jul 2022 #39

This message was self-deleted by its author Kaleva Jul 2022 #41

Meh... Oneironaut Jul 2022 #43

I always figured we'd become sterile due to toxins so we could no longer reproduce, then die off. TeamProg Jul 2022 #46

It's human nature Kaleva Jul 2022 #47

Ughh.. Huh... well.. I'm not that fond of algae.. don't suppose fish & sea mammals are either. TeamProg Jul 2022 #45

Agent Smith from The Matrix. keithbvadu2 Jul 2022 #50

Some in the scientific community are not impressed with this report. Emrys Jul 2022 #51

What's next, algae? Kid Berwyn Jul 2022 #55

This article is suspect Nevilledog Jul 2022 #56