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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

They are the same piece of generic rhetorical label you slap on or argue you can't slap on whenever it conveniences you. If your solution is just a sentence long, you are an over-simplifying things.

So what happened to the ancient civilizations that collapsed before capitalism existed? Ducks. It's the ducks that need to be shot.

[-] Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Easter Island comes to mind. They showed up, took every tree on the island, then the vegetation went away and the island had nothing left to give.

[-] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Why do I need to put guard rails on things? People can just choose to not fall off. All people are perfectly rational/knowledgeable and other physical pressures do not exist, so people must want to fall off of cliffs!

[-] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

There actually is no way to change this. We can't do anything about it because we're just too stupid. People create systems of violence, and there's just nothing that can be done to help that because there is no way to change that. No sir, no way at all. It's pointless to even try.

We are all sinners filled with sin so anything that we do is bad. There is no hope. Your grandmother is a virus actually.

[-] dan00@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

I really don’t get this positive attitude some people have.

No, there is no way to change this. Have you read any part of history? This is naive at best.

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[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago

Plenty of bacteria and viruses are beneficial, and contribute to the overall health of their hosts.

If humans are diseases, then it is because through learned behaviors that we act in a deleterious manner towards the overall ecosystem. We are entirely capable of shifting those behaviors, of creating social structures that select for behaviors that promote co-existence and symbiosis with that ecosystem.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

There are some symbiotic bacteria, but I'm unaware of any beneficial viruses. Their entire nature is to hijack cells to replicate themselves, typically resulting in the eventual death of the host cell.

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Researchers are looking into bacteriophage that infect gut bacteria. It seems that over time, the viruses select for and introduce genes to bacteria that play nice with our intestinal health, rather than run amok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbvAaDN1bpE

[-] thepenismightier@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

Idk if we're gonna have fascism we might as well have eco-fascism.

[-] carotte 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

except eco-fascism isn’t "fascism but we save the planet! :D" it’s "fascism but to justify the genocide of brown people we add a bit of green sprinkles on the white supremacist rhetoric"

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[-] andybytes@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Sometimes I get frustrated with people and I think this. But then I quickly snap my mindset out of this because I know really what's the problem. Capitalism.

[-] JLock17@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Humanity: Living with nature and not causing global ecosystem crisis for thousands of years. Capitalism: Starts the industrial revolution and the need for eternal Exponential growth, resulting in massive environmental destruction over the last ~250 years. "Clearly, the humans are the problem."

[-] dan00@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

The good old slavery and crusade days.

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[-] dan00@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Just because you can pronunce a word it doesn’t mean you understand it. By definition eco-fascism is fascism, because it wouldn’t make sense otherwise.

I don’t get the meme but allow me to clarify: if you think this meme will prevent me from punching a fascist in the face, you are wrong.

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