Avatar is about capitalism

[greatram@lemmy.world]

I feel so bad cutting trees and draining lakes

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

The issue is that you're changing the ecosystems and environments so much that all those eons of evolution are simply lost. The only other times this happens is during natural catastrophes. Sure, in the long run this allows new life forms to take the old ones places, but it's still a massive loss of diversity and evolutionary knowledge - and unnecessary suffering for millions of living beings.

When species compete for a habitat, they rarely destroy it - and those species that do either don't survive for long, or they wipe out large swaths. We're actively killing almost anything in our habitats, and destroying them for almost all previous species.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Does this imply communism wouldn't extract resources?

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

But your corporate overlords demand it, sadness isn't efficient, get back to work!

But really they did a great job with commentary. People still say "why can't we get green energy in the game?". Because that's not the point. This is raw capitalism. You're dropped on a pristine planet, destroy the environment, clear it of all natural resources. It's &meant_ to make you feel guilty. Maybe look around outside

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

I've found peace recently thinking about our blue planet. We may cause chaos for a bit, but in the grand scheme, it'll be fine. The rivers will run, the oceans will be blue, plants and animals will eventually, over tens of thousands of years and longer will be fine.

Humanity is fucked, we destroyed our chances because we as a society could never get over our greed, but the problems we cause will be temporary. Over time the planet itself will heal. We just won't be here for it.

That being said, it's why I'm choosing not to have kids.

[cilethesane@lemmy.ca]

https://twistedsifter.com/2011/06/comic-strip-of-the-week-26/

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

I like to describe the aliens that attack you in factorio as environmentalists.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Nataly needs a spell-checker. Also, a quick tutorial on comma splices wouldn't be wasted.

You know: grade school stuff.

[stupidcasey@lemmy.world]

Thanks, I’ll remember that when I go to school… oh wait, I’m not in school anymore. I’m gainfully employed, get paid plenty, and nobody cares. Huh, it’s almost like the hyper-educated imposition placed on us by society is simply a form of control, gatekeeping, and self-aggrandizing and the people who spent more time studying than forming relationships wasted their time and are now disgruntled because they have to work harder than those who aren’t overly anal grammar Nazis.

[thawed_caveman@lemmy.world]

The idea that nature is precious and must be preserved is human-centric.

Trees caused an extinction event when they appeared by absorbing all the carbon dioxyde and radically changing the atmosphere. But we feel bad when we're the ones doing it

[retrograde@lemmy.world]

I just got done with an 8 hour factorio session so this meme resonated

[ech@lemm.ee]

Avatr is about capitalism

That wasn't glaringly obvious to everyone?

[zorque@lemmy.world]

I thought we were saving kittens and puppies...

[hogmomma@lemmy.world]

Like, to absolutely everyone?
This ranks up there with "breathing is good."

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

Holy shit! Avatar is about capitalism? How did u miss that?!

[retrograde@lemmy.world]

They hate that fresh, artisanal air

[rumschlumpel@feddit.org]

That's what I was wondering. If you took whatever system Christoph Columbus (i.e. late 15th/early 16th century Spain) had and used it today, it wouldn't be any better than capitalism, but it wouldn't BE capitalism.

[starchylemming@lemmy.world]

i feel like the enviroment is into that shit

consume

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

So... We manage to master space travel. We manage to master interstellar travel. We eventually find a planet with suitable for sustaining our species. And we just overlook it.

Can someone explain me the reasoning behind this?

Sci-fi to the side, there are more minerals available - readily - on asteroids and barren planets than anywhere else. Why go hopping around looking for habitable planets, to the reason of 1 out of who knows how many, to then strip mine it?

[ours@lemmy.world]

Wait until you learn about its subtle ecological message!