universal evil tendencies across the centuries
A list by coalescente · 68 items
It is called universal for a reason. The list brings together a wide range of human practices, behaviours, and historical wrongdoings, not necessarily in order of severity or moral equivalence. I do not claim that they are all equal nor intend to place them on the same moral footing. The list is not a ranking nor an assertion that every entry carries the same weight.
- Plume hunting

- Seal hunting

- Ivory trade

- Maritime fur trade

- North American fur trade

- Pearl hunting

- Blast fishing

- Hydraulic mining

- Peat extraction on the Somerset Levels

- Charcoal-burning suicide

- Oology

- Tyrian purple

- Water pollution

- Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery

- History of whaling

- Noise pollution

- Minamata disease

- Deforestation in Indonesia

- Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest

- Rabbiting

- Bottom trawling

- Mountaintop removal mining

- Marine plastic pollution

- History of wolves in Yellowstone

- Love bombing

- Dodo

- Thylacine

- Human trafficking
- Witch hunt

- Unit 731

- Human zoo

- Tuskegee Syphilis Study

- Child slavery
- Gaza genocide

- Wartime sexual violence

- Willowbrook State School

- MKUltra

- Unethical human experimentation
- Forced displacement

- Scorched earth

- Bride burning
- Female genital mutilation

- Lingchi

- Compulsory sterilization

- Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66

- Coral bleaching

- Passenger pigeon

- Cochineal

- Retreat of glaciers since 1850

- Four Pests campaign

- Dust Bowl

- Thermal pollution
- Exxon Valdez oil spill

- Eutrophication

- Acid rain

- Sand mining

- Bhopal disaster

- Microplastics

- Times Beach, Missouri

- Light pollution

- Itai-itai disease

- Love Canal

- Deforestation and climate change

- Ozone depletion

- Ocean acidification

- Desertification

- Climate change

- Patriarchy

5 comments
great work. i might take some of this for my "things we got wrong" list.
I am merely collecting and documenting the catastrophes humanity has managed to inflict upon itself and everything else, as an uncanny and deeply uncomfortable reminder for whoever happens to stumble upon my list. But thank you, and by all means, feel free to take whatever you find useful from the archive!
I'm going to keep this in mind when I gain authority and power
what about the holocaust
yea these do seem bad
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