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While it makes no physical sense whatsoever, I like to see climate change as earth trying to raise its body temperature to get rid of an infection.



If humanity is the disease, will it kill the body or leave both alive in symbiosis ?


Turn your causal arrow around and it makes more sense. m


If the Earth is middle-aged, we are the equivalent of a stomach ache it got from eating something expired for breakfast


I don't know why but your view and the gp commenter's view makes me more angry even than the deliberate liars on the other side of the climate change. It reduces us all to passive pawns in something beyond our control. It is not, and we are not. Human beings have all the technical ability to be the dominant species on Earth until the Sun transitions to a red giant - billions of years. Then we probably have what it takes to colonize within the solar system. We have that level of intelligence and capability. People just need to have some personal responsibility.


Your view seems to be deeply human-centric, while the views you criticize are not. I wonder if this mismatch is the source of your anger.

Climate deniers/liars primarily disregard the enviroment in favor of human impacts, which is shared among many threads of climate activism as well.


I'm angry because I have visibility into this area and have kids, honestly. I can't afford to be philosophical about it.


For all your talk of the impacts of overpopulation... the reason for your belief system is that you have kids?

It seems to me we can't afford to not think philosophically about it.


I am with you, we are somewhat of an infection, but we have the technical ability not to be one. If we have the social ability is another question.




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