• newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    What would aliens say? Oh sorry, you’re good, it’s those other ones in your species that are the bad ones… ?

    If the aliens were as advanced in systemic analysis as humans are, they wouldn’t say bs like that but “Your species is not the problem, but you seem to have a societal virus that forces most of you to destroy your planet for the benefit of a tiny elite class. This seems to be the problem”.

    Btw dblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de’s tone does not seem hostile to me at all. They’re just brutally honest.

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      2 days ago

      Fair enough - a societal virus that’s been a part of our species since as far back as the stone age. Hoard the resources and kill the other tribes that pose a potential threat to you and yours. Our species has probably had wars for resources for hundreds of thousands of years.

      We haven’t had the ability or capacity to start majorly affecting the planet’s ecosystems and atmosphere until, what, the last couple hundred years?

      If only we could pick these alien’s brains on how we might go about solving the basic curse of human greed… Reminds me of this comic: