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No person is safe until all people are safe. We will weather the storm together or not at all.
I don't say that as a sort of hope, or aspiration, or prayer. It's not even a statement of fact.
It is a promise; a curse. Ignore or defy it at your own peril.
Perhaps someone said this during the human population bottleneck event tens of thousands of years ago, when we were reduced to a few thousand people at most on the entire planet.
Maybe an eldritch god heard it and made it so — an ancient bargain to stave off the end of the world.
For anyone unaware of our genetic heritage as a species:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_Toba_eruption#Toba_catastrophe_theory
When people say "humans have been through worse" when talking about global warming, I don't think they realize just how little that reassures me.
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk@malcircuit I hate when people make that argument. OK, fine, maybe humanity has been through worse before, but it *was not a nice process* for those involved. Because we've survived before doesn't make it a good idea.
@Floppy Exactly. The idea that *some* people will get through it doesn't make up for all the people who won't, especially when the entire situation can be avoided.
@Floppy It's just a form of denial and cope. It's giving in to the delusion that somehow it won't impact you directly and personally. It makes it into a thing that will happen to other people, which is both morally and factually wrong. No one is safe.