No, I don’t think I’m being profound by saying an extremely common phrase akin to “the more things change, the more things stay the same.” I just don’t think today is all that different from the past, even with trillionaires.
Right, and sometime in the future it’ll be an even larger problem like fucking up multiple planets. Of course the problems of today are unique in their scale; they’ll also be dwarfed by problems in the future, and today will seem simple in comparison.
There’s a reason people always think the world / society is going to end with their generation, that we’re somehow unique in the amount of damage we can wreak.
You’d be incredibly lucky to witness the end of the world, it’s something people have been talking about for thousands of years.
Yes, I agree that we have more ability than ever to cause harm to the environment. No, I don’t think the perception of this is anything unique. If you keep advancing, the problems only get worse and worse. Thus, it’s the same as it ever was. People think we’re going to destroy the world just like every other generation has and will in the future.
If you don’t agree, that’s fine. It’s just my opinion, not an objective fact.
Except now the level of wealth, influence, and power of a few has reached new levels accelerating the erosion of our planet in a fraction of the time.
Same as it ever was. Today’s incomprehensible horrors will seem quaint and simple 100 years in the future.
Sigh, when people think they are being profound but just spout the most trivial shit…
No, I don’t think I’m being profound by saying an extremely common phrase akin to “the more things change, the more things stay the same.” I just don’t think today is all that different from the past, even with trillionaires.
Again: in the past they couldn’t, even if they tried, fuck up the whole biosphere of our planet as we are doing right now.
So no, not same as always. The underlying principle yes, but the scale was physically not possible before.
Except if you mean last 150 years, then agreed.
Right, and sometime in the future it’ll be an even larger problem like fucking up multiple planets. Of course the problems of today are unique in their scale; they’ll also be dwarfed by problems in the future, and today will seem simple in comparison.
There’s a reason people always think the world / society is going to end with their generation, that we’re somehow unique in the amount of damage we can wreak.
You’d be incredibly lucky to witness the end of the world, it’s something people have been talking about for thousands of years.
Yes, I agree that we have more ability than ever to cause harm to the environment. No, I don’t think the perception of this is anything unique. If you keep advancing, the problems only get worse and worse. Thus, it’s the same as it ever was. People think we’re going to destroy the world just like every other generation has and will in the future.
If you don’t agree, that’s fine. It’s just my opinion, not an objective fact.
Just like nuclear technology is no longer a threat to humanity, right? We’re dang near a hundred years there.
Wouldn’t that be more like “same as it ever will be”?