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(DIR) Post #Ar0cOhzMVs4xsCztgW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-11T12:34:19Z
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It’s not “the environment” we are destroying. It is ourselves. The environment will be fine without us. The environment may send a fleet of glaciers down from the poles to grind away a hundred of million of years of rock. The environment may spew hot basalt over the land for thousands of years burying all evidence of some little interesting ecosystem forever— the environment will make new ecosystems with lichens that consume the rocks, or vast algal mats like continents.
(DIR) Post #Ar0cpjeORV9iqW4ogi by wmd@chaos.social
2025-02-11T12:39:08Z
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@futurebird but we'll take some species with us. If not most or many.
(DIR) Post #Ar0d7hHC0aW6h9n1Bg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-11T12:42:24Z
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Cherish the parts of the environment that operate on a scale we can comprehend. Every day the earth, grows colder— it’s a hot sticky ball of rock with complications on the surface— a snowflake that glories in complexity even as it falls destined to be erased by the monotony of space. The moon is drifting away— the tectonic plates slowing— a future cold & dead awaits. Take from that some urgency to understand before there is nothing left to be understood and no mind left to understand it.
(DIR) Post #Ar0dAYIjplvJjCsFfc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-11T12:42:58Z
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Ok This was supposed to be cheerful but it came out kinda dark.
(DIR) Post #Ar0dCsMyBws2Y1xfG4 by NatureMC@mastodon.online
2025-02-11T12:43:21Z
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@futurebird I think so too. But personally, I have a problem with the fact that the current 6th extinction is mainly human-made.And then I come to the problem: where do I categorise all the species of life that have the same right as humans? (I like David Abram's concept of the more-than-human).
(DIR) Post #Ar0dIHKknp9JQAV7oW by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-02-11T12:44:20Z
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@futurebird This comment by itself describes a good portion of what I read on the internet.
(DIR) Post #Ar0dV8e8PhDQF4hMAq by uguisubari@m.ai6yr.org
2025-02-11T12:46:38Z
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@futurebird That would make a good t-shirt, probably white text on a black shirt.
(DIR) Post #Ar0dWpWeTUcRWH0MaW by IcooIey@mastodon.green
2025-02-11T12:46:58Z
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@futurebird This is perfect. Everything is a matter of scale and perspective. I for one take comfort in this macro macro macro perspective even as it doesn’t relieve me from the imperative to act now to resist the micro micro changes making life difficult in this moment.
(DIR) Post #Ar0diTdLh6yZ67guGW by tarheel@mstdn.io
2025-02-11T12:49:03Z
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@futurebird😆You forgot to mention that we're all dying."Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may..."
(DIR) Post #Ar0dmoJSkdu6OLSK7E by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T12:49:47Z
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@futurebird My worry is it'll get so bad Earth will end up like Venus. Or is that not possible? I see your kinda dark and I raise you even darker!
(DIR) Post #Ar0dnf5oW7Tg5MTfhQ by NocturnalNessa@infosec.exchange
2025-02-11T12:49:51Z
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@futurebird the biggest issue with peoples mindset regarding the climate is forgetting how small we are. the sun is throwing thermonuclear bombs' worth of energy at the atmosphere constantly. the worst nuclear war we could fight would maybe take the earth 100 years to recover from. just, we wouldnt be there anymore
(DIR) Post #Ar0eIAuCnoNxRFb7HU by snork303@toot.community
2025-02-11T12:55:29Z
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@futurebirdKinda.
(DIR) Post #Ar0fLCgSkN8VmEB4ds by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T13:07:10Z
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@futurebird And eventually our galaxy will be cannibalised by the Andromeda Galaxy to become, the Milkomeda Galaxy! Don't wait up though it is not due to happen for about 4 billion years.
(DIR) Post #Ar0g6y4yLl7GNhPxR2 by SKleefeld@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T13:15:52Z
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@futurebird "Supposed to be cheerful but it came out kinda dark" is pretty much the default operating mode of Gen X, I think
(DIR) Post #Ar0hUcibWJvX2InaQC by tarheel@mstdn.io
2025-02-11T13:31:22Z
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@futurebird«an odd, razor-thin stratum hiding halfway up some eroding, far-flung desert canyon»https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/?gift=ly-h2TZGdDJyaoFv6n-KaR88iUYD82vTQmgXsxrPZfY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share (gift)
(DIR) Post #Ar0ip4PuLcQsgfMq0G by asakiyume@wandering.shop
2025-02-11T13:44:50Z
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@futurebird Further upthread (or downthread? I don't know which word applies to which direction) you said this got dark, but actually I find this--this right here--very comforting and often think things like it. ... Mind you, I do want H. sapiens and the charismatic species we take the time to notice to survive, but those aren't all there is. Our planet is just so tremendously full of life.I like your imagined algal mats.
(DIR) Post #Ar0rVWvPXpowtorNy4 by DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
2025-02-11T15:23:35Z
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@futurebird Good angle!
(DIR) Post #Ar0xMCmheldvYNiwEa by econads@mendeddrum.org
2025-02-11T16:29:05Z
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@futurebird no, I have to take issue with that. Unless you're not counting the millions of species we're doing away with on an ongoing basis as part of the environment. You of all people..
(DIR) Post #Ar1081NtXqco0N334a by takeonrules@dice.camp
2025-02-11T17:00:09Z
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@futurebird it was beautiful in a sense of scope...that Life will go on but also Life is fleeting. And life happens at many scales and temporalities
(DIR) Post #Ar10WgO6kMIg7nuJBQ by verbeeld@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T17:04:16Z
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@futurebird And in 200 million years time, there will hardly be any signs left we’ve ever been here.
(DIR) Post #Ar12xQpCuvCtaISuyO by jhavok@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T17:31:52Z
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@futurebird The green abides.
(DIR) Post #Ar16L2HY7OHOHKfXo8 by tyx@lor.sh
2025-02-11T18:09:47Z
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@futurebird On the bright side we will leave behind a great supply of dissolved rare elements for the future evolution of fancy new enzymes.And about humans - well, we survived through the LGM, probably will make it through something like EETM in some mountains (where mammals usually persist when things go sour) or around the poles.I wouldn't be so optimistic about the civilization though.
(DIR) Post #Ar17a9NC8Ua8ZL53sO by dwalin_7@piaille.fr
2025-02-11T18:23:41Z
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@futurebird i'd like to be sure of this, I have a sort of fear of a scenario where the earth really becomes uncapable of having any form of life on it. Loss of the atmosphere, etc.
(DIR) Post #Ar1MRsmHS5Oa5xKWTA by Eh__tweet@mastodon.uno
2025-02-11T21:10:17Z
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@futurebird They made a song about this:https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WUMEczhcqYA
(DIR) Post #Ar1kcOIvUQDrfW8xZw by aprilfollies@mastodon.online
2025-02-12T00:58:45Z
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@verbeeld @futurebird “And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,Would scarcely notice we were gone.”
(DIR) Post #Ar1lNcUAa6yzGHvHc0 by blondino@c.im
2025-02-12T01:49:39Z
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@futurebird the future cold and dead is thankfully so far away that we have made sure the human race is long gone before that.
(DIR) Post #Ar2TIn06SHvIPPMmhM by xilebo@norden.social
2025-02-12T10:01:44Z
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@futurebirdhttps://mediachomp.com/mother-gaia-and-humans-comic/