/lit/ - Literature

>>12091787
These threads always makes me depressed knowing that there are people out there that concern themselves with intellectual pursuits and yet everyone I interact with on a daily basis concerns themselves with vanity and lack any originality

Moving here was a mistake

>business majors laughing at me when I tell them that I study ecology
>call me dumb for caring about reducing meat consumption (I'm toying with vegetarianism)
>tell me oil will never go away (they want to work at mid-stream oil&gas companies)
>laugh at me for being against fracking (claim that even if groundwater is contaminated it's too far under ground to matter)
>don't see a problem with rampant beef consumption or excess corn and basedbean farming, unaware of phosphorus and nitrogen cycling into gulf of mexico to create hypoxic zones
>pro-life, don't think about the implications of exponential growth on a finite planet (typical of neo-classical infinite world economists)
>claim that "technology" will extend oil reserves (nonsense their professors told them in their "business classes" (private individuals with vested interests in perpetuating oil&gas))
>>likely they do not believe this but want to drink before the lake is dry
>cannot comprehend the vast web of biotic and abiotic factors, the signals of a planetary system (will remove deleterious influences (homo sapiens)

barlowe bump