That is the most morally depraved thing I’ve ever read.
The destruction of our biosphere is by far the greatest crime in history. And it isn’t happening by accident — an extremely small percentage of the population controls everything and is looting our ecosystem so they can become unimaginably wealthy.
And what do you propose we do? Why — nothing!
nor should it be mistaken for giving up. The Earth deserves hospice care.
I have news for you — putting the entire Earth into “hospice care” is giving up. It means accepting the destruction of our entire civilization and countless other species, the despoiling of all of nature.
You think we should just learn to accept it and prepare for the end — learn to accept catastrophe for all these beautiful non-human species that did nothing to deserve a miserable extinction, and for our children and grandchildren whose main crime was having psychopathically indifferent ancestors.
Somehow, the discourse went right from “There’s no problem here, nothing to be done about it!” to “We’re doomed, still nothing to be done about it!” Conspicuously absent is any actual attempt to solve the problem. This instant jump from ignorance to apathy is feckless — no human with any sort of conscience could respect this to the slightest degree.
The Earth is not dying — it’s being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses — but your plan is not to stand in these people’s way, or to punish them for their crimes against the planet, or do anything at all!, but stand there and say, “Isn’t it sublime?”
NO! A thousand times no. What you are proposing is morally wrong. We cannot sit there and allow everything of beauty to be destroyed, and learn to find beauty in death and destruction as you propose.
We need to fight this catastrophe. We probably can’t stop it, but we can sure as Hell mitigate it. We can certainly punish the guilty instead of allowing them to be the last ones standing as your spineless and pusillanimous reasoning would result in. We shouldn’t be accepting of this fate, we should get angry, and we should channel this anger into defending our planet and our ecosystem, not watching with detachment, all “It’s sublime!!” as it all goes to shit.
I strongly suggest you remove this article — because in twenty years or thirty years, when the magnitude of what has been done is apparent, people are going to be looking for the culprits, and those who advocated for inaction in the fact of the catastrophe are going to be about as popular as Nazi collaborators were in 1945.
In summary, your article was bad, and you should feel bad, because you are advocating for something terrible — acceptance of the ravaging of the world’s ecosystem.
