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Why Ten Billion Snow Crabs Disappeared Off the Coast of Alaska
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Peter Watts (SciFi author) has a phrase: 'Signposts en route to oblivion'
Hey look, this is one such signpost
Majority of humanity sitting in the passenger seat staring at their phones: ..... Huh, wah? .... Oh, ok ... goes back to looking at phone
More like majority of humanity is like "oh shit, we should stop there's no road ahead!" And the driver is just like "nah"
I wish, but most humans are stuck on the "there was a road untill here, we will find a new one. No need to slow down for that. There always has been a road." sentiment.
What should i do? Stop eating crab? Its about 20 years too late for that, as ive never eaten crab.
Short of devouring the rich, which im only stopped by lack of a ride and a barbed wire fence, or eco-terrorism which for legal reasons i have to clarify that i do not support and have, like totally never engaged in, theres not much i can do.
My carbon footprint is so shallow that it might as well be flying. Yet the world still burns.