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hunter

(40,688 posts)
6. I'm unreachable, kristopher.
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 02:54 AM
Mar 2014

No television, my car and computers were someone else's trash, and I'm just an evolutionary biologist (by inclination and some years of formal training) with a ring side seat to the current mass extinction event.

Life will go on, this civilization will not.

It really fucks up one's perspectives when one truly groks geological timescales.

You know how we can save the world? Mandate a twenty hour work week and do everything else we can to destroy "work ethics," economic theories of "productivity" and "efficiency," and then go home to have a nice day with plenty of art, science, and sex and very little reproduction.

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