@MrMatthewTodd This is because we don't see our fellow citizens as kin, but as an artificial environment to be exploited, an attitude greatly facilitated by DIVERSITY, which we are taught it is RACIST to oppose.

@MrMatthewTodd And what a writer.

@MrMatthewTodd @Laurie_Garrett Yep.

@MrMatthewTodd ...Oh, it's cost effective. It's not lobby effective.

@MrMatthewTodd Pity no one will survive to see it.

@MrMatthewTodd Who cares. No one.

@MrMatthewTodd Immediately underneath your post on my feed!

@MrMatthewTodd Vonnegut; superb works.

@MrMatthewTodd In his book "Collapse", Jared Diamond notes that a common factor in the collapse of societies was that the ruling class refused to make needed changes that would reduce their own power & wealth.

@MrMatthewTodd In the fullness of time, humans will come to understand that our biosphere is the most suitable habitat for the lifeforms that it supports. With respect, it is a much better value for money proposition to protect nature for the common good than building colonies in space. No?

@MrMatthewTodd With respect, it is a much better value for money proposition to protect nature for the common good than building colonies in space. No? In the fullness of time, humans will come to understand that our biosphere is the most suitable habitat for the lifeforms that it supports.

@MrMatthewTodd and last, quite probably

@MrMatthewTodd Too bad there will be no more "history" to look back on because there will be no more "here" here and no more us

@MrMatthewTodd Because markets failed

@MrMatthewTodd slaughterhouse 5

@MrMatthewTodd Not the first

@MrMatthewTodd True.

@MrMatthewTodd So it goes...

@MrMatthewTodd Deep 😐

@MrMatthewTodd Ive seen this quote many times but have never found a citation. Is the attribution apocryphal? Do you know @VonnegutLibrary ?