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> A few hundred million people dying over a time of a couple of decades is very different from the end of the world though. Really? Seriously? This seems inc
by zhte415 10y ago
> A few hundred million people dying over a time of a couple of decades is very different from the end of the world though.
Really? Seriously? This seems incredibly dismissive.
- adrianN 10y agoI don't mean the figure of speech "not the end of the world", I mean the literal end of human civilization. I think you have to agree that humanity can carry on even if every tenth human dies. That is less than the death rate caused by the Black Death (~50%) and back then Europe managed to carry on.
- Daishiman 10y agoDude, who cares about it not being a literal statement? Civilization as know it, literally, is going to end and so will the ecosystems that have supported societies for thousands of years. You're playing words games that no one cares about.
- inimino 10y agoYou wrote "Climate change is not the end of the world." Do you usually use "not the end of the world" to mean something comparable to the Black Death?
- adrianN 10y agoYes, especially when I reply on a thread that started with historic predictions of the end of the world (you know, the seas turning to blood, the four horsemen...). I'm not a native English speaker so it took a number of outraged replies before I remembered that some people use "the end of the world" to mean things other than, well, the end of the world.