2026-08-06 12:41 UTC
@RealGene@hachyderm.io @tobeB@climatejustice.social
That joke triggers me a little bit. It's cute, but the earthquakes are (AFAIK?) purely caused by statistics with no relation to the whole climate disaster, unlike most of all the other environmental problems everybody in the future will have to face.
Dealing with the earthquakes involves overcoming a different weakpoint of human brain biases, which is about dealing with the constant possibility of very rare, but very devastating disasters in certain geological regions.
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@domi@c.im 2026-08-06 12:45
@RealGene@hachyderm.io @tobeB@climatejustice.social I like the kernel of truth in this headline and joke, though. Which is, IMO, that if humans dont stop fucking up the climate, they will be mostly or even fully whiped out, but the beautiful treasure of life will endure in various ways, cockroaches or whatever, and then slowly evolve back to its pre-mass-die-off diversity. I feel a certain bleak philosophical beauty in that fact.
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@RealGene@hachyderm.io 2026-08-06 14:04
@domi@c.im @tobeB@climatejustice.social Tell that to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Texas who now register *thousands* of earthquakes every year due to the disposal of fracking fluid into spent gas and oil wells… https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/does-fracking-cause-earthquakes