And the answer is: No. We're screwed as a species. We're fucking this planet hard, with no regard as to what's going to happen to it in the future. We're going to run out of oil in something like 50-100 years, which isn't long, really. We're fucking with the OZone layer, we're polluting everything we touch, and oh yeah there's famine in like, what, a quarter of the world. Meanwhile we're living in one the most wasteful nations on Earth.
I read somewhere that car companies bought up the prototype for an excellent working electric car a few years ago. Then, they destroyed it. Their greed was more important than the end of oil-based cars, more important than progress, more important than the environment. The money was more important the fate of the planet.
I wonder what will happen to us, I really do.
Ferret says the planet will repair itself, given time. Yeah, I agree, I think it will.
But we both know- and so do you- that the planet's repair would be much faster if we aren't on it. And sometimes I really think we won't be.
And so I worry.
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