In 1973 a reportedly drunk driver flattened a tree in the middle of the Sahara, which sounds unremarkable until you learn it was the only tree for 250 miles around, a 300-year-old acacia so isolated it was marked on maps covering half a continent. https://share.google/ePM21R48Aq0VRqTUb

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[–] 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Humans struggle with accepting that as we are now we're more or less a virus killing a host.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    We aren't killing the host. The host will go on, we're just destroying the growth medium for ourselves and other creatures.

    Something will go one even after we manage to wipe ourselves out.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Every day we stray closer to The Matrix

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