Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead
by Frondo on Thursday August 09, 2018 @08:44AM
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"when the buffalo herds died off" -- when they were slaughtered almost to extinction, in large part to decimate the Indians who relied on them for food.
Check out the size of this pile of buffalo skulls, to get a sense of the scale of destruction we did:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/bison-skulls-pile-used-fert...
Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead
by deadmetheny on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:29AM
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>we
I did nothing of the sort, thank you very much.
Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead
by titzer on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:08AM
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See this a lot. Well if you really take it as a personal affront that many frontiersmen did this...please also refrain from taking credit for any collective positive accomplishment of humanity, like the US constitution, ending slavery, or more generally Science, computers, jeans, or bubble gum. If you wanna stick to the things that you personally did, by all means.
Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead
by deadmetheny on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:56AM
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Why would I claim a hand in the creation of any of that? Using things others have built is not 'taking credit'. It's perfectly possible to acknowledge the evils of our ancestors without having to personally feel bad for it because none of us did it and have no reason to feel guilt for it. Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex.
Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead
by titzer on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:53AM
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> Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex.
This just not what anyone wants to see here at HN. No one personally attacked you, yet you feel compelled to spew anger. That's just not our culture. There are other places for shitposting.
"Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex."
Ah, men, the logical gender, the rational ones, and certainly never given to fits of emotion.
Overall though your point stands. It’s not like billions of people are going to willingly give up the comforts that we have. Though in part this is because it is no longer feasible to live off the land as people did thousands of years ago. The only way to go back, as you call it, is for the population of the world to decline. This would mean a drastic reduction in the birth rate. There is a number for the size of the population of the world such that if everyone of those people lived like Americans pollution wouldn’t be large enough to be a problem.