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F-ing hate doom-ers. I have ONE word for you: Y 2 K Remember? The world was gonna end. Fsssssssssssssssssss... In 2005 we were told that PeakOil was supposed

by nickpp 17y ago

F-ing hate doom-ers. I have ONE word for you: Y 2 K Remember? The world was gonna end. Fsssssssssssssssssss... In 2005 we were told that PeakOil was supposed to happen before 2010. Guess what?! Global Warming! Global Warming! Yes, the system goes through crises, but then things change, wrong get righted and life goes on. No, the world is probably not gonna end. And if does, the fact that I won't hear you whining anymore will almost make up for it.

sliverstorm 17y ago
Crisis will always happen, things will always change. That is not in question. It's foolish to just brush everything off and say 'we will be fine, the system will correct itself'. The system will certainly always correct itself, but it's possible to happen upon a crisis that hits so fast, or a sneaky crisis a long time in the making (and requiring too long to fix), that the wrongs cannot be righted before catastrophic damage occurs. (And by catastrophic I mean not a market crash or whatever but nation-, society-, race-, or world-ending)
- nickpp 17y ago
  So you agree with me: crisis and solutions. Nobody said "brush everything off". On the contrary I said that solution will be searched & found. As for "catastrophic damage": yes they are possible (even an asteroid hitting earth. But what are THE ODDS of us not figuring out a solution in time? Even lower than those of the event occurring in the first place, and thus practically negligible.
  - ytinas 17y ago
    >But what are THE ODDS of us not figuring out a solution in time? What? If the right size celestial body were heading for the earth there wouldn't be much we could do about it. There are a great deal of things that can happen that we would be utterly powerless to stop. Given that, there is no point worrying about such things. If such a thing ever does happen, I'll probably be gone by then anyway.
    - nickpp 17y ago
      Exactly. Thank you.
      - ytinas 17y ago
        Ah, I interpreted your comment to mean that what ever happens we will be smart enough to solve it. I agree that worrying about things utterly beyond our control is senseless.
tdoggette 17y ago
What do you think Y2k would have looked like if there hadn't been a serious date-format conversion effort?
- nickpp 17y ago
  But THERE WAS an effort and it WAS successful. That is my point: everything that comes our way, humanity WILL deal with it. We did in the past and we will do again in the future. The probability for doom, while not zero, is extremely low, due to our flexibility.

by nickpp 17y ago

sliverstorm 17y ago

Crisis will always happen, things will always change. That is not in question. It's foolish to just brush everything off and say 'we will be fine, the system will correct itself'. The system will certainly always correct itself, but it's possible to happen upon a crisis that hits so fast, or a sneaky crisis a long time in the making (and requiring too long to fix), that the wrongs cannot be righted before catastrophic damage occurs. (And by catastrophic I mean not a market crash or whatever but nation-, society-, race-, or world-ending)

nickpp 17y ago
So you agree with me: crisis and solutions. Nobody said "brush everything off". On the contrary I said that solution will be searched & found. As for "catastrophic damage": yes they are possible (even an asteroid hitting earth. But what are THE ODDS of us not figuring out a solution in time? Even lower than those of the event occurring in the first place, and thus practically negligible.
- ytinas 17y ago
  >But what are THE ODDS of us not figuring out a solution in time? What? If the right size celestial body were heading for the earth there wouldn't be much we could do about it. There are a great deal of things that can happen that we would be utterly powerless to stop. Given that, there is no point worrying about such things. If such a thing ever does happen, I'll probably be gone by then anyway.
  - nickpp 17y ago
    Exactly. Thank you.
    - ytinas 17y ago
      Ah, I interpreted your comment to mean that what ever happens we will be smart enough to solve it. I agree that worrying about things utterly beyond our control is senseless.

tdoggette 17y ago

What do you think Y2k would have looked like if there hadn't been a serious date-format conversion effort?

nickpp 17y ago
But THERE WAS an effort and it WAS successful. That is my point: everything that comes our way, humanity WILL deal with it. We did in the past and we will do again in the future. The probability for doom, while not zero, is extremely low, due to our flexibility.