The earth wouldn't care if it was a barren rock devoid of life. We aren't going extinct more easily than every other large mammal on earth, so "bouncing back eventually" misses how horrifying it would be. I'm tired of people pretending like extinction is inevitable, or even the worst fate that might await us. I'm not scared of extinction; I'm scared of us facing hopeless lives of full of suffering only to die painful deaths.
It’s very easy to blame things caused by big corporations but a quarter of all emissions come from you eating meat which is your choice and you can stop doing that.
I completely disagree. We don't need coordination to individually decide to eat less meat and buy more local. You don't need to stop completely to make an impact. And it'll be easier to encourage and convince others when you've already started yourself. We can do that at the same time as fighting for companies to reduce their emissions.
And in Germany every year there's articles that the slaughter factories can't sell as much as last year because people eat less meat. Yes, Regulation is needed and great and all but it won't happen if everyone is sitting on their ass still eating meat showing the world that they don't care about the slaughter factories. Individual people still make a slow difference and that's better than just yelling regulation while eating corpses.
By your logic we should all use LLMs because it's the big corpos that own the data centers so there's nothing you can do
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ceenote@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 42d
Earth is being awfully selfish. Does he even care about all the shareholder value they're creating?
_chris@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 42d
Earth will bounce back without us around being all virus-like.
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social · 17 pts · 42d
Sure eventually. That doesn't mean 80% of biodiversity has to die to increase shareholder value though
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 42d
Viruses, famous for never killing their host.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 42d
The earth wouldn't care if it was a barren rock devoid of life. We aren't going extinct more easily than every other large mammal on earth, so "bouncing back eventually" misses how horrifying it would be. I'm tired of people pretending like extinction is inevitable, or even the worst fate that might await us. I'm not scared of extinction; I'm scared of us facing hopeless lives of full of suffering only to die painful deaths.
_chris@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d
Yep, you got it. But this wasn’t a post about how much life will suffer on earth as a result of humans. That is, as you say, quite terrifying.
Maybe we should all come together and do something about it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 42d
We just need to build more datacenters in order to compute the solution to the problem of all these data centers.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 42d
lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 42d
It’s very easy to blame things caused by big corporations but a quarter of all emissions come from you eating meat which is your choice and you can stop doing that.
MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 42d
Still corporations fault. They own the slaughter factories. Stop blaming people.
bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 42d
To be fair, me alone going vegan is not going to stop the meat from hitting the shelves.
We need global organisation and co-ordination to do this.
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 42d
I completely disagree. We don't need coordination to individually decide to eat less meat and buy more local. You don't need to stop completely to make an impact. And it'll be easier to encourage and convince others when you've already started yourself. We can do that at the same time as fighting for companies to reduce their emissions.
lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
You want global coordination but you don’t want to be part of the change?
Sas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 42d
And in Germany every year there's articles that the slaughter factories can't sell as much as last year because people eat less meat. Yes, Regulation is needed and great and all but it won't happen if everyone is sitting on their ass still eating meat showing the world that they don't care about the slaughter factories. Individual people still make a slow difference and that's better than just yelling regulation while eating corpses.
By your logic we should all use LLMs because it's the big corpos that own the data centers so there's nothing you can do
lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
Corporations aren’t just killing animals because it’s fun. They do it because you pay them for it.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 41d
This is a very libertarian view
lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 40d
Asking other leftists to implement their anti oppression views in their daily life: you’re a lib actually
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 41d
You're not allowed to call out bigger sources of emissions and water waste, we have animals to slaughter, almonds to grow, and golf to play!
EmberKitty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 42d
it comes from meat farms, i dont produce a gallon of waste and emissions from eating chicken nuggets :p
sure, supply and demand, but its less likely that if you complain on lemmy than more popular social media that you will make a difference.
aka: womp womp, look at this pro-corpo slop