3% fewer insects this year than last year
1/3 the birds of 40 years ago
99% of land mammal biomass humans or livestock
about 50% more volume of boat in the ocean than of fish
it'll all be over faster than you think
more was destroyed by an asteroid. and 6 other times. stop thinking you are so powerful vs the ecosystem.
we are fine. we're just being humans. can't be anything else.
Great point, we can start with you
The Atlantic, known for the phrase "killing children can be legal"
These articles always imagine themselves exempt from their argument.
It's like he just assumes the billionaire class is going to swoop in and protect him and everybody he loves due to his obviously superior genes and massively over-developed brain.
Correct me if I'm wrong but "extinction" is not a "force" of destruction right? Extinction is the result of destruction, it's a state of being not an actor
If FernGully taught me anything it's that extinction is Tim Curry and he's not doing too hot these days
Yes, but this lets them obfuscate what the force is
"destruction is also a creative urge" - bakunin
Extinction is literally the loss of biodiversity. What the absolute fuck?
Humans need to accept that bad things are good, actually
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The answer is the intuitive one: We absolutely need to be worried about what humans are doing to the planet. But we should be worried about the transformations we’re causing and all the destruction of ecosystem services that they entail, not because extinction is inherently bad, but—first and foremost—because these transformations might well destroy us.
What a pointless waste of time and energy to write this article. "Extinction isn't bad unless, of course, we're eating at the very foundations of human existence, in which case it is in fact bad."
Also his pinned tweet is a link to an article claiming global warming would have been worse under socialism.
Did The Atlantic grow this toxic fucker in a lab test tube? - https://xcancel.com/leigh_phillips
A recent tweet
I must be doing something right if an article I write prompts the climate denialists to accuse me of eugenics, the degrowthers to accuse me of being a Big Oil shill, and the Hamasniks to do their usual thing. (Note that the article on extinction does not at all reference Isr/Pal)
The same person who is for mass extinction is against Palestinian armed resistance.
https://xcancel.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1810805850145181952#m
He wrote People's Republic of Walmart. I want the people of the global south whose homes will be underwater soon to be allowed to execute him and Matt Huber.
I would say most of the time Leigh's takes are correct, but some of his opinions are definitely questionable (particularly on Palestine as you've pointed out). He is very, very well read, and his book Austerity Ecology is pretty much the definitive guide for eco-modernism. He's highly educated, and presents some unorthodox opinions on climate change (he is - strangely - quite optimistic about our ability to curb it, and backs up everything he says with evidence, which I appreciate)
On the other hand, there's shit like this lol.
Phillips wears his antagonism on his sleeve throughout, referring to Transition folk, degrowthers and the wide spectrum of the Green/alternative economics world as "anti-packaging jihadis", "degrowth militants", "green Mr Magoos", and "an army of tattooed-and-bearded, twelve-dollar-farmers’-market-marmalade-smearing, kale-bothering, latter-day Lady Bracknells"
I'm gonna go with a thanks but no thanks on Austerity Ecology
this person can be right about humans not needing to worry about how many insects are going extinct (our ability to calculate that statistic is a product of the same neuroses that makes our unstoppable drive to consume the entire earth continue forward forever) AND be wrong about everything else.
broken clocks etc.
our ability to calculate that statistic is a product of the same neuroses that makes our unstoppable drive to consume the entire earth continue forward forever
no and this take is fucking insane. it's because we have an elder god of capital urging us towards collective suicide under threat of mass starvation is what's causing us to consume the earth. counting extinct insects is literally directly disincentivized by our current economic structure for the exact same fucking reason that structure is destroying everything with reckless abandon. hence why this useless fucking article disapproving of the practice was written. read theory or shut up (the unabomber's shitty ass manifesto doesn't count nor does Zerzan "the disabled dying is just how it has to be" PrimitivistMan)
many people spent millennia having access to rational thought without committing genocide, fix your angloid brain, murder isn't equivalent to "progress"
What in the fuck are you hucking?
Ohhh, so humans etching that HS-boundary* in fossil records is so that
ourcrab or chicken descendants in 10 or so million years will marvel at the biodiversity boom happening in their time??
We must be the kindest species ever, so selfless!
I hope no one and nothing remembers us.*the homo sapiens boundary can be identified by the distinctive concentration of plastics & PFAS, as well as a sharp fall of biodiversity in the sediments above it
amen
Oh cool so the Atlantic is publishing Gary Oldman's monolog about destruction from the Fifth Element... cool, cool.
1000 years gulag
Who could've thought that Leigh Phillips would write something like this ... lol. Is he even pretending to be a socialist still?
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today in 'upsides of capitalism'
Look, tech bros are disruptors and they're good at it. We're talkin' trillions and trillions of dollars - okay? Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Elon Musk. So they can disrupt the climate. They can do that. There will be some losers. But that's how things work. That's life. Pun intended.
but
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