Maybe we can’t save the earth and we can’t save ourselves

Annie 2022-08-22 17:51:13

It did tell the current situation facing all mankind, and criticized those in power from the perspective of a scientist. But development itself is irreversible, and politicians are not all just for more power. Development itself has formed an infinite loop with survival. People live for a hundred years, and there is no need to pay for the billions of years of the earth’s past and future with their own actions.

A hundred years ago, we thought that internal combustion engines that didn’t eat grass and shit were clean. Half a century ago we thought that hydropower was clean. Thirty years ago we thought that wind power was clean. But now we find that fossil energy is almost exhausted. Hydroelectric power stations have caused the ecosystem to fall apart. Wind power stations have brought about a large number of bird deaths and local climate changes. The GHG produced by solar energy in the production of monocrystalline silicon even exceeds that of thermal power! Therefore, the development of science is still to take one step at a time. What we can do is to take back the legs in time when we discover that we have made a mistake! In the Stone Age and the Atomic Age, we are all changing the earth for survival. We come and go between the two ages like a pendulum, just not to turn drug use into drinking poison.

A hundred years later, people, dust returns to dust

After millions of years, mankind, the dust will return to the dust

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The 11th Hour quotes

  • Wes Jackson: It's not just global warming. It's not just fossil-fuel dependency. It's not just soil erosion It's not just chemical contamination of our land and water. It's not just the population problem. And it's not just all of those. - The deterioration of the environment of our planet is an outward mirror of an inner condition. - Like inside, like outside. And that's a part of the Great Work.

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    Oren Lyons: What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate, and all the lakes will be pristine. The rivers, the waters, the mountains, everything will be green again. It'll be peaceful. There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't. So I think that's where we're at, right now.