> Our biggest characteristic is resource consumption and technology production I would say.
Resource consumption is characteristic of all life; if anything, we're an outlier in that we can actually, sometimes, decide not to consume.
Abstinence and developing technology - those are our two unique attributes on the planet.
Yes, really. Many think we're doing worse than everything else in nature - but the opposite is the case. That "balance and harmony" in nature, which so many love and consider precious, is not some grand musical and ethical fixture; it's merely the steady state of never-ending slaughter, a dynamic balance between starvation and murder. It often isn't even a real balance - we're just too close to it, our lifespans too short, to spot the low-frequency trends - spot one life form outcompeting the others, ever so slightly, changing the local ecosystem year by year.
Resource consumption is characteristic of all life; if anything, we're an outlier in that we can actually, sometimes, decide not to consume.
Abstinence and developing technology - those are our two unique attributes on the planet.
Yes, really. Many think we're doing worse than everything else in nature - but the opposite is the case. That "balance and harmony" in nature, which so many love and consider precious, is not some grand musical and ethical fixture; it's merely the steady state of never-ending slaughter, a dynamic balance between starvation and murder. It often isn't even a real balance - we're just too close to it, our lifespans too short, to spot the low-frequency trends - spot one life form outcompeting the others, ever so slightly, changing the local ecosystem year by year.