Hey climate conscious people everywhere - PLEASE stop implying or saying that the earth would be better off without humans!!!! Malthusianism, the debunked "overpopulation" myth etc are cruel anti-human ideologies that easily lead to racism, eugenics, and any form of welcoming mass death. That's horrifying.
Yes, humans have caused climate disasters and extinctions and biodiversity loss and soil erosion and the hole in the ozone layer and all sorts of bad stuff. But it was only ever a minority of humans who drove those things. Humanity overall has an awe-inspiring ability to not only adapt ourselves to our surroundings, but also to adapt them, change them. The ecological footprint, so to speak.
That's what we need right now. We need to increase our ecological footprint! The earth is an abused child, what this child needs is not neglect and abandonment (humanity dying out or civilisation crashing or humans stopping to interfere in any way) but SUPPORT to heal and grow. Sure, as an abused child myself I know what it feels like to dream of neglect as "salvation" from active abuse. But in reality, that's just a more subtle form of abuse. It's still also abuse.
With great power comes great responsibility. As humanity we undeniably have great power on earth. It is therefore our responsibility to USE that power for good! To not neglect it or ignore it or be in denial about it. We need to do good things with it. We need to heal ourselves, our communities, societies and ecosystems.
We have unique abilities to understand, communicate with, oversee and plan for ecosystems, locally and globally, that no other lifeform has. We need to be stewards and caretakers of the land, of the watersheds and of the entire planet. We could make this world so beautiful and bountiful for everyone!
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