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c_m_33 t1_j5elr2r wrote

Don’t worry, this is just the prelude to wall-e.

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Orwellianpie t1_j5eooir wrote

Makes sense. Rural Serbs still dump all their household trash right in the rivers. Last time I was there I saw an old lady throw two trash bags off a bridge in front of daytime traffic.

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Kekoa_ok t1_j5g4nst wrote

Wait till they learn about the Pacific patch

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BlindOptometrist369 t1_j5hbwjg wrote

Replying to MEATPOPSCI_irl (#1,438,918)

No it’s not.

We’ve lived in harmony with nature for hundreds of thousands of years without creating a mess like this. It’s our industrial mode of production, and politics structure that allows for this level of destruction against the environment.

Humans aren’t inherently bad, the lifestyle of mindless consumption, industrial waste, and endless growth is the real cancer.

Edit: I’m pointing this out because blaming it on the existence of humans opens the door to eugenicist and genocidal “solutions” to a problem that’s only been around since the Industrial Revolution.

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BlindOptometrist369 t1_j5hf854 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,443,891)

Yes, those ancient cultures definitely created the 6th great mass extinction event in history. That’s definitely what I’m talking about. I know nothing about the horrific co2 emissions and industrial scale forest clearing these ancient cultures do.

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minnesotaris t1_j5hhyq4 wrote

Nobody fucking cares. They’re just tryna get through the day. They do not have time to figure other shit out. When the vast majority of all products sold today incorporate a throw-away component, ta-da! We are all at fault with this cause every person says “oh, just once doesn’t hurt…”.

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washington_jefferson t1_j5ho0o0 wrote

Jebige. Take these sons of bitches trash back up stream! Our rivers are made with nice liquid waste, which flows along with the river like a song. These sons of bitches put solid waste in their rivers! Look at it! Jebote!

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HelpStatistician t1_j5hv9qe wrote

Is there any Balkan river that ISN'T a floating trash dump? As someone from that part of the world, a clean body of water would shock me at this point.

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Maelas84 t1_j5j5n95 wrote

Then clean it up...
Reporting that its a dump does nothing.

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leo_aureus t1_j5jzycr wrote

You would think they would give a shit about their country, what, with how much they talk about how great it is all of the time!

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skillywilly56 t1_j5lb84u wrote

Replying to BlindOptometrist369 (#1,443,634)

We have not, we have always been destroyers, 48000 years ago all the megafauna that lived in Australia and Europe after hundreds thousands of years suddenly disappear, 13000 years ago all the megafauna disappeared from North America.

All these events were precipitated by the arrival of Homo Sapiens.

We have munched and crunched and killed and burned and eaten our way across this planet for millennia.

We have never been in harmony with nature because we are unnatural compared to other animals, the Industrial Revolution just accelerated the speed with which we consume it did not alter the fundamental problem which is that humans are greedy and will suck every last juicy drop of marrow from the bone before moving on.

Between 1888 and 1927 8 million koalas were killed for the fur trade to make hats…

North American Bison 1880 60 million-1889 500…just for their fur.

North American beaver fur trade, 400 million beavers when Europeans arrived in 1600s, down to 100 000 in 1900…

All of these things were happening long before Industrial Revolution, it just accelerated the pace.

Humanity has always been a bottomless mouth that endlessly feeds till there is nothing left then moves on.

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