• InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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      It’s more that capitalism is causing “the end of the world”. Between now and the total deaths of all life on earth, I remain hopeful that there will be some positive systematic change before it gets too far.

    • Archer@lemmy.world
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      That was probably true about the divine right of kings, hundreds of years ago. Things change

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        It changed because private citizens were able to join together and accumulate enough wealth to match the private treasuries of a local monarch and fund private armies to act as revolutionary elements that threatened their local monarch with overwhelmingly disproportionate strength and forced them to capitulate.

    • AmyAye@nord.pub
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      Yes, because science can be used to show measurable ways the world is actively ending right now.