sometimes the self-defeating selfishness of humans really depresses me. the waste, and the mad rush to create waste everything else. i think every privately owned car is a policy failure, never mind every billionaire.
even more stressful now as artificial intelligence promises to press every ounce of precious metal onto silicon chips, burn every drop of oil and gas, and chain-react every uranium atom.
but organisms have always changed the earth’s atmosphere. when the first life formed on the planet, the atmosphere was bountiful… for microbes which lived in scorching acidic springs. we are not the first (and we won’t be the last) species to expand into all the space available to us, using all the resources we can pillage, resulting in our planet becoming inhospitable for our species.
despite being individually conscious, on a species level we are not smarter than trees.
the love epochal. n.n. benn 