Mother Gaia and Humans

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

George Carlin

Aside from the thousands of species we killed in the process

It’s a recurrent theme in the history of the world you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands, tens of millions of species killed, never to be seen again.

No species ever lasts that long.

There have been many extinction events, and we won’t be the first “nature based extinction event” the planet has seen either.

Just one of the dumber ones.

Others have been fairly random. GRBs sterilizing half the planet, asteroid impacts, simple microbiological species fighting for resources whilst unknowingly making their environments unlivable, etc., etc.

In this case, the writing has been on the wall for decades, completely preventable, but here we are barrelling into it head first none-the-less. Dumber indeed.

No species ever lasts that long.

Sharks enter the thread.

Awkward silence ensues

Shark species go extinct all the time. New shark species arise.

Terry the Trilobite too.

We are committing a mass extinction on Earth’s life, there will be a geological record one day of where life suddenly fell off.

And what’s really wild to think about is that while tragic to us and our perspective of the beauty of the world… in the larger picture, it will still be utterly insignificant to Earth’s history. The next million years will see massive portions of life die off, climates will change, new species will emerge and grow into new ecosystems, and there will be an entirely new set of fauna and flora, and humans will be a distant memory, a rust-colored line on the strata.

And that coming million years? Also a blink of an eye in Earth’s history. A fraction of a fraction of our planet’s history of life’s abundance and drama. All the life we see around us represents a sliver of a fraction of a fraction of Earth’s biological history. It’s so, SO much bigger than any of us can imagine and it should have the effect of humbling us.

dont forget about our deep space probes, pioneer, and voyager.

Those will still exist without us. A drifting reminder of our pitiful existences, hurtling through the vast emptiness of space, hoping to find something capable of discovering it.

250 millions years ago, there was a mass extinction that killed 95% of life on earth.

Yeah and we should maybe NOT CAUSE ANOTHER ONE wtf

We’re actually going through the 6th mass extinction right now, so actually we are kinda killing most everything on the planet, not just us.

We should want to preserve that. Unfortunately a handful of old rich dudes don’t care.

Nature will survive, this specific bird species perhaps not.

This specific bird is way to forgiving. It’s more like saying if on average 1 species dies every million years on average, we have killed thousands of species in a thousand years. Then throw in the idea that we also could say the percentage of population of those species we killed would be over half of them, we can say to ourselves, yeah this is really being accelerated. Mass extinction has already begun. People who say humans will survive it are optimistic because our adaptability. It’s more like if you want your descendants to be able to go outside and be able to breathe without life support systems, you should so something about it.

There is a science fiction story I love but can never find.

It was about a society that was deep into climate change. Humans lived in giant concrete bunkers and never went outside. The oceans and land was fucked but we managed optimize it all to keep living. Farm the ocean for plankton for food and oxygen. Set a limit on how many humans we could have and how much food, water and activity you could do in a day to preserve resources.
And one man had managed to save a small patch of grass at the cost of a little bit of his own water. Until it was discovered and deemed an unoptimized flaw and burned.

I think of that story when I think of humans surviving climate change a lot. I think about it whenever I think I would like to have kids.

you missed the point completely. life has always survived mass extinction events and will survive this one too. life will eventually flourish once again and humanity will have been a blip in earths history

Right, the Gaia presented in this comic is a mother nature who does not give a shit about the lives of billions of animals. She only cares if life as a whole survives, she doesn’t care how many species go extinct and become lost forever. Only humans care about that.

Humans are the universe’s way of giving a shit about itself.

Up and to the right. Line must go up.

Humans are basically just another massive asteroid hitting earth. And just as mindless.

Yeah, the 6th mass extinction.

Some things yes, most things… Not by a long shot.

You could always google it instead of denying that it’s happening.

Going through? Yes. Causing? Yes. Could have modified or prevented it? Also yes in countless and effective ways over literally centuries.

Will we? No. No, we will not.

Cause the rich will be fine. They’re simply not affected by it.

Maybe the old ones who will die soon. But everybody else, including their children will be affected.

Climate protection was never about saving species or eco systems.

It is about not fucking the whole planet wide eco system so that we can’t live anymore on this planet.

However even that we dropped for profits.

I mean basically anything relating to energy would have costed the double amount (at least).

Now we have also to reduce the co2 that was produced 200 years and the one that is triple the amount of the next 10 years.

Great filter theory: can intelligence evolve fast enough to outpace stupidity?

In my completely unprofessional opinion…no.

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