Saudi Arabia officials said on Sunday that more than 1,300 Muslims died during the Hajj pilgrimage, which took place during intense heat, and that most of th...
We've never experienced scarcity at the global level like we are about to face (at least since the Ice Age anyway). Humanity's response will be the true horror of the climate crisis. Just look at how Europe reacted to the Syrian refugee crisis and how the US is panicking now over migrants at the border. These numbers are not even a trickle of what is to come when the Global South can no longer produce enough food to sustain itself. We've seeing firsthand just how easily the populace can be whipped up into a frenzy of xenophobia and readily promote violence as an acceptable solution. Now ramp that up by several orders of magnitude.
Oh, I never suggested that. Livability on this planet will be very unevenly distributed and those who can hoard resources will protect it at all costs. But yeah, we are nearly impossible to kill off completely. Language, planning and writing are the big game changers that give us a leg up on past species that faced extinction events. I don't think even nuclear war or a meteor strike will fully wipe out humanity at this point.
I don't think even nuclear war or a meteor strike will fully wipe out humanity at this point.
Even Threads, as depressing as it is, doesn't show humanity completely destroyed by global nuclear war. Just reduced to a level of base violence and brutality and misery that most of us would wish we were dead
We've never experienced scarcity at the global level like we are about to face (at least since the Ice Age anyway). Humanity's response will be the true horror of the climate crisis. Just look at how Europe reacted to the Syrian refugee crisis and how the US is panicking now over migrants at the border. These numbers are not even a trickle of what is to come when the Global South can no longer produce enough food to sustain itself. We've seeing firsthand just how easily the populace can be whipped up into a frenzy of xenophobia and readily promote violence as an acceptable solution. Now ramp that up by several orders of magnitude.
okay sure, but even if everything you say is true that doesn't reduce the human population to a few billionaires in a bunker
Oh, I never suggested that. Livability on this planet will be very unevenly distributed and those who can hoard resources will protect it at all costs. But yeah, we are nearly impossible to kill off completely. Language, planning and writing are the big game changers that give us a leg up on past species that faced extinction events. I don't think even nuclear war or a meteor strike will fully wipe out humanity at this point.
Even Threads, as depressing as it is, doesn't show humanity completely destroyed by global nuclear war. Just reduced to a level of base violence and brutality and misery that most of us would wish we were dead
That movie was haunting