Is it practical for us to live here?

[TheVanillaGorilla]

The oceans too deep, people drown and not so great. Global warming dose not give AF about us at all. COVID was a huge inconvenience. We can't live naked in the forest without freezing to death but all the other animals can, like WTF 😒 We can't talk to animals without them freaking out and running away from us. Want to go skiing but avalanches happen too much. Want to go travelling but more dangerous animals in other countries 🤦 Can't win

[Dead2009]

Some of these can be easily rectified though. Avalanches dont happen all the time, you can stay in underwater hotels now, and you have to know where the dangerous animals are when you go traveling out of the country.

[Captain Steel]

The oceans too deep, people drown and not so great. Global warming dose not give AF about us at all. COVID was a huge inconvenience. We can't live naked in the forest without freezing to death but all the other animals can, like WTF 😒 We can't talk to animals without them freaking out and running away from us. Want to go skiing but avalanches happen too much. Want to go travelling but more dangerous animals in other countries 🤦 Can't win

Yet we are the dominant species on the planet.
We've gone from living in caves, where everyday was a fight for survival, to living in giant metal towers and lives of luxury (well, some of us anyway) in just a couple million years.

Is this a concern about the unfairness of life, the brutality & randomness of nature, or some treatise on death & mortality?

[doubledenim]

It will never end well for us. With reproduction unchecked, no predators and our “civility” preventing us from killing each other on a large scale.

It’s all about being in the 0.001% and having a seat on the spaceship off this rock.

[FilmBuff]

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[Citizen Rules]

...Global warming dose not give AF about us at all...I beg to differ, global warming does give a **** about us, it wants to destroy us. I don't blame it either, it's called payback.

[Captain Steel]

I beg to differ, global warming does give a **** about us, it wants to destroy us. I don't blame it either, it's called payback.

Same with global cooling - which some of the very same people who today warn us about global warning told us was the most imminent & existential threat just a few decades ago.

This just shows that a lot of people don't (and didn't) know what they're talking about.

No, I'm not a climate change denier - the climate always is and always has changed. And no, I'm not denying mankind has any effect on the environment. (After all, I am a lifelong environmentalist and conservationist since my childhood days of reading Ranger Rick magazine!) :)

Problem is, the concerned people are like someone who's dismayed at finding a candy bar wrapper on their lawn and wants everyone to do something about it - meanwhile their neighbors (which represent China & India) are daily dumping billions of tons of toxic waste into the local reservoir.

Our concern and attempts to rectify pollution are meaningless when there are players who ignore it and pollute on a level that makes the rest of the global population responsible for only the tiniest fraction of the damage that pollution & emissions may be causing.

Until we can either convince or stop the major polluters (whose behavior demonstrates that they have no care about pollution) then all our attempts are RELATIVELY futile.

I'm not saying give up - metaphorically speaking, everybody should keep picking up those wrappers off their lawns and commit to never throwing them on anyone else's. Every little bit DOES help - BUT, again, such small & gradual efforts won't solve the larger problem of others that are "littering" at a geometrically greater rate than everyone else combined, with no end (and no means to an end) in sight.

[doubledenim]

I missed that pod ☺️

[Yoda]

1. Yes.

2. Currently no alternative.

[Austruck]

I believe in an intelligent personal God who put each of us here for a reason. I also believe we've messed up along the way and need His help (each of us individually and also nations corporately).

So, yes, it's practical for us to live here. God's in control, and at some point He's gonna call the big Time Out/Game Over. Hoping each of us is ready for that. Till then, we keep on keepin' on.

[Mr Minio]

The oceans too deep, people drown and not so great. Global warming dose not give AF about us at all. COVID was a huge inconvenience. We can't live naked in the forest without freezing to death but all the other animals can, like WTF 😒 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AEj3LA2vSo

[John McClane]

My .308 says yes we can!