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1. Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:56:02 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

   The Fermi Paradox says we should have contacted alien life by now

   The Great Filter says we haven't because a civilization's capacity for self-destruction increases to certainty over time

   I thought for us it would be an exotic technology or scientific discovery that instantly destroys on a large scale

   Nope. Far more depressing and mundane

   We simply watched ourselves destroy our climate and lacked the will to do anything about it because someone was making money off it

   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

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   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:56:36 JST Urzl

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     @benroyce Turns out that "capitalism" is the Great Filter.

     Once we invented a system to justify and reinforce greed, destruction was guaranteed.