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I hear you. Coming from one of the rogue nationx when it comes to climate change, I have my moments too.

Still, on reflection, I'm pretty sure our current trajectory was inevitable the moment humans developed agriculture. We're the wildly pullulating caterpillar devouring our tree, and always were going to be just what we are. Just another species. Just another dead end in evolution's exploration of ecological state space.




Yeah, I pretty much agree with you about agriculture, especially after reading "Sapiens" by Hariri.

> We're the wildly pullulating caterpillar devouring our tree, and always were going to be just what we are.

It's really mind-blowing to think of us as a planetary-scale caterpillar. Thanks for the analogy!

Cheers.




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