The planet is in its sixth major extinction event - one that’s been ongoing for roughly 12,000 years. And yet we’re finally achieving a kind of universal consciousness regarding the impact we’re collectively imposing on the world and the methodologies we can employ to respond to it.
I don’t think I’d call that “getting worse”. No other lifeforms have ever had the opportunity to know they’re going extinct before it happens, much less the faculties to do something about it.
This is a pivotal epoch in Earth’s multi-billion year history. I would not say things are getting worse. I would say things have the potential to move in a direction no planet in the Solar System has had the opportunity to move since it was created. That potential creates a great deal of anxiety and fear, because it is much easier to be ignorant - a dinosaur unaware of the looming comet - than faced with the foreknowledge of catastrophe. But it is that shared anxiety that creates the social pressure for universal change.
The planet is in its sixth major extinction event - one that’s been ongoing for roughly 12,000 years. And yet we’re finally achieving a kind of universal consciousness regarding the impact we’re collectively imposing on the world and the methodologies we can employ to respond to it.
I don’t think I’d call that “getting worse”. No other lifeforms have ever had the opportunity to know they’re going extinct before it happens, much less the faculties to do something about it.
This is a pivotal epoch in Earth’s multi-billion year history. I would not say things are getting worse. I would say things have the potential to move in a direction no planet in the Solar System has had the opportunity to move since it was created. That potential creates a great deal of anxiety and fear, because it is much easier to be ignorant - a dinosaur unaware of the looming comet - than faced with the foreknowledge of catastrophe. But it is that shared anxiety that creates the social pressure for universal change.