Accelerating climate destruction may be crueler than hastening humanity’s end

Evidence

I finally find myself reluctantly agreeing with the business community. There is no time for delay. Let’s build the runway. Let’s choke the Earth. Let’s get this damn thing over with, for what can be avoided, whose end is purposed by the mighty gods of business? Hasten our demise, let our children be the last of their sorry line, and spare their unborn descendants any further suffering. We will not save the rhino. We will not even save the hedgehog. How can we save the world? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1976

Categorization

• CANDY: The bitter sarcasm — ‘let our children be the last of their sorry line’ — is a memorable, sharp satirical passage.
• XREF: connects to: Distant future people fail to arouse the empathy that would curb environmental harm; Climate catastrophe will destroy what we love before it ends extractive economies — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1388

Broader Connections

• Distant future people fail to arouse the empathy that would curb environmental harm #corroborates (0.75)