Just a reminder that it’s still February, people.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’m not specifically saying that suddenly the planet is going to swallow up humanity as a whole. But, as you said — climate refugees — plus an uncertain food and water supply, and disastrous weather are going to cause humanity to fight amongst themselves. We will end up destroying ourselves to “survive.”

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      8 months ago

      I think there will be plenty of places where life will go on without everyone having to till the soil. But there will be a lot more death and pain.

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        8 months ago

        The death and pain will come from the people in bad areas attacking those in the good ones.

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          8 months ago

          That is not something you can predict with any certainty. That may happen and it may not. We can’t know at this point. But there will definitely be a price paid for our continued fossil fuel use.

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            8 months ago

            Based on what you know of humanity and its history, where would you place your bet?

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                8 months ago

                I’m not asking you be clairvoyant. I’m asking you to make an educated guess on the outcome of humanity based on what you know about humanity.

                You can refuse, but just say you’re refusing.

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                  8 months ago

                  What I know about humanity is that we spent the vast amount of our history as small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers, so any prediction you make is based on a very tiny fraction of our history.