LorenzoApophis t1_j1j2gh7 wrote
Reply to comment by mathturd in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
Well, we did hunt a lot of things to extinction.
RobleViejo OP t1_j1j5g6m wrote
Did you know there was a species of flightless swimming bird akin to the Penguins on the North Pole? They were called Great Auk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk
Anyways, we hunted them to extinction in less than 20 years after their discovery.
muddlet t1_j1lih35 wrote
and if you lived 100 years ago you never would have known they existed because the internet hadn't been invented yet. there are many horrible things, sure, and there are many wonderful things, and there are many in-between things. you said above that you care about the holocene extinction more than your own life, but focusing on it is drowning you in misery and preventing you from doing something meaningful. staying inside and on the internet keeps you in a cycle of feeling shit. use how much you care about this to get out there - build connections with others that care, do something with your life that pushes your corner of the world in the direction that you want, and try to do as much enjoyable shit as you can
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