• Jack@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Can’t wait to hear how our society is judged in a few centuries.

    1. Probably revolted at human overpopulation, the biggest and root cause of, amongst other things:

    2. factory farming and industrial fishing, which slowly tortures to death 2-6 trillion fish every year, and enslaves 2-4 trillion animals (mostly fish and chickens) in torturous conditions every year;

    3. mass-extinction causing anthropogenic climate-change;

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      1 month ago

      #2 and #3 circle back to #1 really, and #1 is thanks to advances in medicine but also hugely by the invention of fertilizer based on… petroleum. New time traveler quest unlocked: go back to the Carboniferous period and unleash microbes to decay things faster.