Connection to collapse is tenuous, apart from intensive mixed animal husbandry mostly in Asia encouraging crossover of animal pathogens and high-frequency long-distance travelling in high density environments encouraging rapid spread to pandemics. Both would appear to be self-regulating.
Maybe we deserve it.
INB4 anyone says, “I didn’t vote for this” or “I don’t deserve it” - what are you doing to change things? Holding up a sign? Peacefully protesting? Not shopping at Amazon?
That doesn’t move the needle.
Until the billionaires and corporations milking the country at our expense fear for their lives, nothing will change.
And, yes, I’m guilty too, because commenting on Lemmy does jack shit.
Maybe we deserve it.
I don’t think it matters if we “deserve it”, that seems to imply some of karmic outcome. Will it happen if we continue living our lives as we do on the planet, likely yes.
So it’s not that we deserve it, no more then we deserve to be dead, it’s that it’s likely to happen and we know it.
It’s out reactions to all this I find confunding (enviormental destruction, climate change, mass extinctions etc) and this undermines any insistence we’re a sophisticated and evolved species
Great. If it stops people from taking planes and driving all over the fucking place, good. COVID maybe gave us 2 years more in the climate crisis. It changed our way of working for the better. It revealed the failings of our educational system and outed the idiots among us. Had COVID been deadlier, it would’ve killed way more idiots. Yes, of course there were many innocent people that died, but there were so many fuckwits who didn’t take it seriously and that were lucky to have been dumb at the right moment…
The shutdowns were not observable in the Keeling curve.
Had COVID been deadlier, it would’ve killed way more idiots.
Maybe but then it wouldn’t have been as successful as it has as a viurs
I mean if you catch said deadky disease and next day you’re on the ground bleeding out of your asshole, eyes and nose while convulsing, people will notice there is something wrong and it won’t be as contagious. If you catch Covid now, you wander around and infect many others.
My bad, I meant deadly for longer. It was quite deadly in the first year, but that quickly changed.
