If we, humans, are worth saving as a species, would it not be a required condition that humans recognise that as the dominant species on our home planet we have collapsed into a society that destroys everything we depend on to stay alive? Surely that disqualifies us?
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Then nature can undo the damage humans did during their very brief stint on Earth.
Not science though.
It’s not a moral judgement we can force onto every other member of our species.
Collectively we spend about 3% globally or 3 trillion dollars per year preparing to kill each other or actively killing each other. Not to mention what we spend to kill the planet. 🤷
80 million of us, the richest ones, consume the most resources and emit more greenhouse gases than 5 billion people on the planet.
Yes the top 1% emits more in total than the bottom 60% *combined*.
reducing the total global population from 8.5 billion to 8.42 billion would more than half total planetary emissions, if the 80 million eliminated are from the top 1%
As a contestant on planet earth your options are:
1. current system with minor tweaks
2. who knows - total chaos then more chaos and then some kind of either authoritarian super state much worse than now, warring chaos for 1000 years or total nuclear apocalypse
Capitalism will not do. It simply will not. Not because of ideological reasons (the writer of this post thinks capitalism is the best proven system so far).
Other than that what was your point about the stock market?
I'm not sure if it's nihilism or animism or some combination
saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country - Beckstead
convert the not productive into biodiesel - Yarvin
we have enemies sustainability social responsibility limits of growth - Andreessen