• adam_y@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You all know this is irony right? It’s either out of Private Eye or Viz.

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        A former high school science teacher in NC argued at a public hearing for a solar project that the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the sun and then all of their crops would die.

        Science.
        Teacher.

        The fall of the Roman empire will be considered graceful compared to the impending collapse from the weight of our own collective stupidity.

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          COVID pandemic shattered my belief that we are an intelligent species and that we have made any progress in last 70 or so years. Now I firmly believe that the next natural disaster - be it pandemic or famine or any global crisis - will be our last one.

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            There are constant natural disasters, pandemics, famines, wars, climate going berserk… and if you look at the world population counter, it’s still going up.

            With 8 billion people out there, an average lifespan of 80 would make it “normal” for 100 million to die each year. The average lifespan is barely over 72, though, that’s got room for a lot of disasters in there.Any global disaster that doesn’t kill at least 10% of the population, or over 800 million, is barely going to register on a “species” scale.

            Brace yourself for a disaster a day for the foreseeable future. This is the new normal.