[llamaimperative]

Uhhhh people get worked up about human hazards because we’ve been producing a mass extinction event buddy. The Anthropocene has seen extinction rates 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate.

Let me know when the mosquitos and radon leaks catch up :)

Sorry to break it to you but you’re not the only person on HN who has heard of malaria or rotting swamps or uranium deposits.

As a side note, it’s telling that the only scoreboard you seem capable of using is which forces have killed more humans. I wonder if there are any other lenses through which one can understand the world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[lazide]

You seem really confused as to what thread we’re in.

You know the one about ‘natural processes are all great, and digging a hole and dumping things in it is terrible’?

Which is why I’m pointing out that many natural processes kill a ton of people and animals? And why digging a hole and dumping things in it may not be so bad after all?

[llamaimperative]

OHHH duh that’s a good point. Things do die in nature. Sometimes at large scale and in horrific ways. Thanks!