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

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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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.

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                    8 months ago

                    The answer to the question is that civilization is an unnatural state for humanity to be in, so it is too unpredictable at present. And since there has never been a global civilization collapse, in part because there has never been a global threat like this and in part because the world has never been globalized like this, we are in completely unknown territory.