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by ImPostingOnHN 1156 days ago
the fear is of the threat to humans and the human livability of the planet, not for the planet itself, which will still be fine after we all die

not sure what's arrogant about that, it's a bit of perspective

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Indeed. This sort of misanthropic talk is shockingly incoherent and absurd. For starters, demeaning human life automatically undermines the value of any life, even more drastically than how acceptance of infanticide undermines all human rights. The notion of sacrificing ourselves for "the planet" is pure nonsense.

Most of this talk is unthinking affectation and empty emotionalism, I suspect, something you might expect a mopey teenager to say, but it does betray some degree of viciousness. Envy and pride come to mind.