One of the most complex social species to ever evolve, not only self-aware but aware that others possess the same awareness. Conquered pretty much every habitable niche on the planet, and quite a few that really shouldn’t have been but still thrived. Domesticated a predator and rival while it was still a threat, then domesticated more animals and plants; can still eat damn near anything and survive. The world’s foremost toolmakers, recorders of knowledge, and perpetually curious. We have so much potential but instead still along shit at one another and befoul the places we live in. We could do better with ourselves than be apes in suburbia.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Human self-awareness and what we’ve done with merits some acknowledgment of how it’s helped us become what we are (better or worse). But it’s definitely not something we can lay sole claim to. There’s plenty of others that have their own version that came with whatever evolution drove them to. We do remain the one species that can really, really reshape the environment and landscapes outside of what we need to survive (compared to beavers, who can build wetlands but don’t know exactly what they’re doing). The fact that we know why we’re doing, and that often our actions have negative consequences, is why we owe it to the rest of the beings on this planet to do better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism
If “return to monke” was a political ideology.
One of the most complex social species to ever evolve, not only self-aware but aware that others possess the same awareness. Conquered pretty much every habitable niche on the planet, and quite a few that really shouldn’t have been but still thrived. Domesticated a predator and rival while it was still a threat, then domesticated more animals and plants; can still eat damn near anything and survive. The world’s foremost toolmakers, recorders of knowledge, and perpetually curious. We have so much potential but instead still along shit at one another and befoul the places we live in. We could do better with ourselves than be apes in suburbia.
Human self-awareness and what we’ve done with merits some acknowledgment of how it’s helped us become what we are (better or worse). But it’s definitely not something we can lay sole claim to. There’s plenty of others that have their own version that came with whatever evolution drove them to. We do remain the one species that can really, really reshape the environment and landscapes outside of what we need to survive (compared to beavers, who can build wetlands but don’t know exactly what they’re doing). The fact that we know why we’re doing, and that often our actions have negative consequences, is why we owe it to the rest of the beings on this planet to do better.
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_anarchism
AnPrim flag is a darker more muted green.
Seems like the OP meant what I linked. But thanks for the link.