/lit/ - Literature

>>19237969
I know what’s coming. This is why I want us to prepare for it asap. The race to AI or the escape to Mars isn’t going to fix anything.

>>18921844
It’s pretty alarming no matter how you say it.

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>>16640969
Child abuse

Fucking dog lovers.
We need to do a whole host of things to balance the biosphere out.

Here ya go.
If everyone “left” they’d trample what’s left of the natural world.
We need a redesign of every aspect of our lives. I know a few books for that too.

>>13878251
All good points, especially
>The destruction of tightly-knit communities and ancient cultures
Without the system of state-capitalism I think the nature of technology would be refocused, and I would hope that these communities would address all these issues

>>13878274
>Nature is ever changing anyways
I can’t stand the thought of these flora and fauna dying off, just shrugging off hundreds of millions of years of their evolutionary history. Yes of course I want the human species to go on too, but without the others? Too sad to contemplate

>>13873271
She’s just trying to wake people up. I mean fuck carbon trading schemes, but get your head out of your ass

I don’t think ecocentrism means to make us second fiddle. We’ve already defined nature, now we need to find a way to preserve it. Project “Human Planet” is about making a global city with an occasional park bubbles of a handful of green but sickly plants. It ought to be just Project Human, where we self evolve however we like, but protect the remaining biodiversity

What ghastly responses ITT

>>13595566
You ought to be turned to mulch

Contributing
Pretty straight forward good read.

Surprised to not see uncle Ted and instead of nouveau fascism vers. 4.2

>>13523957
Cute cat. His eye always like that or is this an expression of some sort?
To better inform myself on the world I live in and perhaps be able to help fix some of the major problems. But also to accent the fictional works swimming around my head.
I’m still reading Half-Earth by Wilson and The Unnamable Present by Calasso. I saw a review of the former somewhere and filed it away as something to read. The weather is getting worse the urgency is increasing.
Finally took note of this Calasso guy. I know /lit/ has been talking about him for a while, but not as often as some of these forced memes. Still not sure what to make of it. On the one hand he’s very thoughtful but on the other, well, he makes some odd connections and assumptions still reading

>>13524042
Hey hey. DLed that too.

>>13501776
Catch 22 for one.

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>>13501789
The utter subjectivity of it all finally dawned on people and artists saw it plainly enough from the beginning. There has always been depictions of death and decay. “Expression” surely, but need it always be about beauty? Of course not. How is it not those things still? Just because we’ve opened up to loads more to *express* ourselves. BAH!
You’re just mad there isn’t a god and eternal spirit.

Reading a few things, this one mainly

>>13464667
Nope. Wasn’t me. People are genuinely interested in an alternative to the madness going on. Anarchism is sensible believe it or not.

>>13437844
I only read interesting books. There’s no time to waste!

>>13415804
Here’s the price of your temporary success

>>13415585
Ecology and the huge mess we’re in.
Guess why I’m neglecting reading it

>>13404609
Not the tactic of killing some guys and probably with a lot of his brand of primitivism. But generally he’s right.

I agree with wilson, that we have to put aside at least half of the earth for the these other creatures

>>13392869
>needed
It is a fact. Why is monoculture needed? It’s not.

>>13392338
If i were straight and had children now, the global catastrophe would still be coming. I’d be miserable and they’d be headed for a life of even worse pain.
You are my children, you wretched monster. Read a book.

Lots.

>>13338524
So I noticed you posted a clown. You’re saying tongue-in-cheekily that liberals are a threat to diversity of the species. Like animal sex is a bigger threat than acidic oceans and increased global temperatures. As long as we’re all just joking around here.