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NihilismNow posted:We are not so much killing the planet as making it unfit for human habitation. The planet and most life on it will survive. We will probably not. I often think about this grumpy thing that Stephen Gould wrote: "A geological insight to combat the well-meaning but seriously flawed position that "we live on a fragile planet now subject to permanent derailment by human intervention and that humans must act as stewards for this threatened world." Such views are rooted in the old sin of pride and exaggerated self-importance. We are one among millions of species, stewards of nothing. By what argument could we, arising just a geological microsecond ago, become responsible for the affairs of a world 4.5 billion years old, teeming with life that has been evolving and diversifying for at least three-quarters of that immense span? Nature does not exist for us, had no idea we were coming, and doesn't give a drat about us."
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