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what is the biggest failure in human history? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The discovery of making and using fire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's the very beginning of the energy crisis. If we had never started fucking with fire, we wouldn't have 90% or more of the world's manmade problems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we could argue about having mankind at all ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Pesky humans, we are our own worst enemy.. ☹️