Sad, and if enough of us don’t change enough, probably true.
This thread reminds me of the 1949 book “Earth Abides”, still a good read now.
When all of the people are dead by our own species’ hands, Earth will find homeostasis again.
As George Carlin said, the planet will shake this troublesome species off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance.
lettruthout@lemmy.world 7 months ago
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
It will take millions of years to recover from us
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In the story of terran life that’s 3.5 billion-ish years long, and counting, we’ll barely be a paragraph.
I find that oddly comforting.