@BerriesOnTop
Well yeah nature doesn’t give a fuck but I can’t understand people who don’t value themselves over animals. Or understand there is a hierarchy of life that we place value on accordingly. Like, a dog obviously has more value to humans than cockroaches and we act accordingly.
Because a human is not intrinsically more valuable to the planet than an animal, except in the minds of many humans. You may consider yourself special but you are not. I do not believe that just because I am human I should have the right to abuse or support the abuse of other animals for my pleasure.
You claim go understand their is a hierarchy of life based on value but I'm not sure that you do, as if you did you would understand the point I am making.
Out of interest why do you think a dog is more valuable to humans than a cockroach? Surely this would depend on the situation. For companionship sure a dog is more valuable but, cockroaches help pollinate plants in the wild and breakdown decaying matter into nutrient rich soil. Scientists have also taken inspiration from the mechanics of cockroach legs when developing prosthetics and are looking at how their naturally produced antibodies could be used to fight against antibiotic resistant viruses.
Better now than literally any point in human history so don’t know what you are on about. As for animals, we have concepts like animal welfare that are very new but there. I dare say animals don’t have this concept at all 😆
It's not better now than at any point in human history at all. Up until the industrial revolution human population was relatively stable with a population growth rate around 0.02%. That jumped to 0.3% on the back of the revolution and continued to rise to a peak of 2% in the 1970s (we're now around 1.1%). That explosion in population has meant we have had to massively increase our exploitation of the Earth and there is no plausible way you can consider this to be "best" the relationship between humans and the Earth has ever been.
Would you say that about all living things on this planet? That all living things are cancer on the planet? Maybe you would 🤔
No, because most other living things live in balance with the Earth and aren't actively exploiting the planet to the detriment of everything else that lives here. Current extinction rates are between 1,000-10,000 times higher than the background extintion rates we would expect to see naturally, with human activity being the primary (and pretty much only) driver.
You won’t be impacted quite as much as you think.
I should be dead before the impacts are acutely felt at a UK level but unfortunately they're already happening in many places around the world. The increase in extreme weather events we are seeing including drought, flooding, storms, fires, intense rain, temperature extremes, etc are all happening with a 1.1 degree rise in GMST and were currently on course for a 2.9 degree rise by 2050. You think brexit or covid has caused issues with supply chains? Wait until billions if people are displaced and billions of acres of food producing land suffer crop failures.