#also the part about terror reminded me of that famous line in Dune

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Probably, the most sober, sincere, dignified, informed, inspiring and kind thing I've ever read on this hellsite or, possibly, the internet as the whole.

For that, I can only say "thank you, OP" and reblog so more people could read this.

i guess i'm not as despairing as many people about the future of the planet simply because the fact that we're not in way worse shape today suggests the earth is crazy resilient

Reading anything about environmental history is like "and by 1956 the river was so full of uranium and bubonic plague that the only living organism found in it was an single amoeba which died immediately after being documented" and I'm like okay maybe today's problems aren't necessarily uniquely disastrous and unsolvable