ShaggyJebus wrote...
Is anyone else surprised at the number of people who (seemingly) believe that human life is going to end in the next hundred years? Or at how many people don't care about human life ending?
I'm not sure if I'll ever have kids, but if I do, I don't like the thought of them living in a hellhole. Or them being the last generation of humans.
Yes, human life will eventually end, as all things eventually end, but hopefully it won't happen anytime soon. And by soon, I do mean the next million years or so. And hopefully, by the time that disease or the sun or whatever does threaten to destroy humanity, we'll be able to fly away to a different planet or build space colonies or something.
Please don't tell me I'm the only person who feels sick at the thought of all human life ending. I'm not saying that global warming is real or an immediate threat (though I'm also not saying that it isn't real), but it is true that humans pollute a hell of a lot and waste a lot, so it's understandable that years of that behavior could affect the environment and hurt us. Even if global warming is completely fake, it should at least be a wake-call, telling us that we can't be complete douches when it comes to the environment.
Now, I'm not green in any way, but I'm also not a person who drives a gas-guzzling vehicle just for kicks and throws all my trash on the side of the road because it's easier that way. I don't know much about taking care of the environment, but I do care. Shouldn't we all be a
little concerned about the environment? Saying "We're all gonna die anyway" isn't any sort of solution. It's just being lazy. If we're all going to die anyway, and that's not a problem, then I should just get a gun, go down to a mall, and count men as one point, women as two points, and children as five points.
I blame the media, when you hear the sky is falling everyday unless we do (X) then eventually you don't care. On top of that is the mentality that one man can't make a difference and since it appears to them like nobody is doing anything to change anything then nobody cares. That and an indoctrination that being born human means that you are lower than bacteria or a virus. I've heard many times of people classifying humans as a virus instead of mammal. You can see where I'm going with this. A virus destroys its host while repopulating at an accelerated rate and then when the host is just about dead they move to a new host. For us, our "host" is the planet. We fuck with the planets, we trash it, pollute it, rape it and then our "plan" in theory, is to migrate to a new home.