Hey bosox:
Don't be an ass. I'm not a leader of anything, above anyone, or anything of the kind. I'm a foot soldier, a follower, a supporter, shoulder to shoulder with everyone else struggling on this planet, and that's where it ends. I'll die that way. I believe to the last breath that I am not in any sense superior to any living thing, and it is because of that that I make the statements I make. I'm sorry that you're such an egocentric cynic, you may one day change. There is always time for that, no matter how late the hour may be.
"I'm not going to do nature's job and select the things that will survive and the things that won't. If a global climate or other type of catastrophe is on the horizon, that's out of my hands."
Nothing is in your hands, and everything is. This is a monstrous cop-out. By choosing to do nothing you are doing the very selection you mock. You have a consciousness, you can't just weasel your way out of the responsibility that entails. If you wish to see the mass extinction proceed, then don't hide behind platitudes. Out with it. Tell us that, and tell us why, and then tell us why it is right, or to hell with you.
"The fuck is this? You can't pin the blame on wealth, power, and political capital for something catastrophic that we all participated in. You're fucking nuts."
I see that they don't teach much about society in the environmental science program. Social systems, dude. Yes we all participate in them. But they are unjust and should be overturned. You severely misread me, apparently because you don't understand how systems work - they're bigger than individuals. Think culturally, not individualistically - individualism is after all a cultural construct.
"You sound like someone from some kind of suicide cult. Go on, Thucy. Extend your arms to the aliens who are going to bring you to the next level of your salvation. The pathetic human race does not know what they are missing."
This is just sad. I sound like I'm in a suicide cult... why? Because I used the word "love"? Fuck me, I guess. I'm curious what you imagine the point of life is. If it is not to love, and fight for what we love, then what is it? Your apparent nihilism marks you out as closer to a suicide cult than me.
"I am studying environmental science because I care about nature and love it to death."
You sound like you're in a suicide cult.... see, I can do it too.
If you care about nature, then why do you apparently see no need to do anything about the mass extinction of modern times? Why would you work in conservation given your statements that you don't want to "meddle" with nature? I can't figure you out here, your motivation is rife with contradiction. What do you believe, what do you care about? What is the purpose of life, how should we live and why?
Someone who doesn't know anything about the destruction of the environment because of ignorance and propaganda, they can be easily forgiven for going along wholeheartedly with the destruction. But someone like you, who knows the stakes... what excuse do you have?
You talk of suicide cults, just minutes after you openly professed to be fine with passively watching the human race self-destruct. What's going on with you?