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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (14 children)

This is pretty much how I see those who romanticize the past.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The only good old times were those before mankind started to mess up the entire planet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It’s always a pleasure to come across a hoopy frood who knows where their towel is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cutting down the trees was out next biggest mistake. For example, the Europeans who colonized the US cut down 93% of the trees they found. They clear cut forests of giant oaks and blackwalnut trees. And we replaced all of that natural beauty with asphalt and endless urban sprawl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.

But we have also run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship's peanut.

So in order to obviate this problem and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and...er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Mankind's been screwing things up since the start.

The Sahara Desert used to be verdant

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-turned-sahara-desert-green-oasis-wasteland-180962668/

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