Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

(and the numbers in that graph are very out of date -- the situation is far worse now)

I invite you to go into wildlife rehabilitation for a few years and get back to me

I'll stick to atmospheric physics, thanks. What a terrible response, lmao

You do you, cutie pie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

just strikes me as strange to uncritically support continued exponential growth despite the knowledge that it's eroding the systems that make human existence possible in the first place.

The nature-as-aesthetic circlejerk is doing no good to anybody. Nuclear & lab meat are actual solutions that don't appease the would-be office hippie with a screensaver of the Amazon. All I'm suggesting is that such people give themselves a tiny, tiny taste of the real thing.

do you genuinely think that being worried about a 40% decline in phytoplankton--which produce half the oxygen we breathe--since 1950 is a "nature-as-aesthetic circlejerk"? One example among many. Nukes & lab meat are obviously necessary. Just as obviously, they're not sufficient.