funkinthetrunk
funkinthetrunk t1_j1ltmsx wrote
Reply to comment by undeadbydawn in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
The most depressing thing about it was how boring it was to read
I will also never read Death's End
funkinthetrunk t1_j1ltgwc wrote
Reply to comment by notenoughcharact in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
This comment is delusional... The things needed to beat back climate change are all past their effectiveness window. What's needed became increasingly drastic, such that nothing will ever be done. I'm talking about things like re-designing cities and towns, de-emphasizing cars, and personalized transportation in general, finding alternatives to plastics, changing our agriculture and food distribution networks... We could have made some easy decisions decades ago and be seeing them come to fruition now. Instead, cans were kicked to preserve profitability and all these economic systems and incentives became even more deeply entrenched. Making the necessary changes is now going to be unacceptable to many people, especially the capitalist class.
We aren't talking about making factories pollute less. We are talking about dismantling and/or wholly transforming entire industries against the will of those who control them.
funkinthetrunk t1_j1lsul1 wrote
Reply to comment by RobleViejo in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
The delusional replies to your comments... If most people really think and act that way then it's no wonder we're not making meaningful changes
funkinthetrunk t1_j1lsfs7 wrote
Reply to comment by Warm-Enthusiasm-9534 in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
How do you know they didn't despair? Or how do you know that they didn't just have better systems in place for coping?
funkinthetrunk t1_j1scchc wrote
Reply to comment by C9_Tilted in What book ruined reading for you? by velvettwilight
I feel this way about ASOIAF...