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Worth noting: a massive volcanic eruption of sulfur in Siberia ended almost all life on Earth once. It rained sulfuric acid with the pH of lemon juice worldwid
by Pxtl 10y ago
Worth noting: a massive volcanic eruption of sulfur in Siberia ended almost all life on Earth once. It rained sulfuric acid with the pH of lemon juice worldwide and everything died, it took 10 million years for diversity to start building again.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_event https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_...
- dkarapetyan 10y agoI think it's going to be a much slower burn this time around. More like boiling a crab very, very slowly. We had a good run but in the end the dinosaurs had the last laugh.
- AznHisoka 10y agohow do dinosaurs laugh?
- tomrod 10y agoNasally, if Jurassic Park 3 is to be believed.
- appreneur 10y agoThey survived for 300million years... We (modern humans) didn't even reach a 100,000 years of survival. Hence we are in the dinosaurs land.Earth belong to dinosaurs... Longest survived mamals.
- sand500 10y agoDinosaurs are reptiles.
- mtarnovan 10y agoThat's just one of several theories explaining the cause of the extinction.
- agumonkey 10y agoHonest question, how far could we live if all human resources were dedicated to create structure, devices and tech for high pH (and low biomass I guess) environment ?
- adolph 10y agoLike Noah, I'd expect there to be much fun made of such an effort and criticism of the resource expenditure. A hypothetical ark builder would probably be better off focusing on a min viable population and pretending the effort had to do with space colony prep or something.
- marcosdumay 10y agoYou mean low pH? High pH would be almost impossible to adapt for. But, we will probably start living (and growing crops) indoor before we fully adapt (require knowing about plastics). We can probably adapt crops in a couple of decades if current science survives.
- agumonkey 10y agoyeah, high acidity - low pH
- dredmorbius 10y agoTrials of self-contained ecosystems capable of sustaining humans to date have operated for less than one year. With other external inputs, potentially longer, but the problem is manifestly hard.
- agumonkey 10y agoDoes this includes systems like the ISS?
- dredmorbius 10y agoNo. The ISS is not self-contained.
- Red_Tarsius 10y ago1) What are practical solutions to runaway climate change, if any? 2) How can I prepare myself to survive through the worst-case scenario? 3) Where's the best place to move preemptively? I imagine that the means of food production will be in the hands of a few countries.
- watty 10y agoYou don't have to do anything to prepare. You don't have to move preemptively or worry about food production. Climate change is not a 80 year apocalyptic concern, you will be long gone before the dire consequences are reached.
- M_Grey 10y agoHave you been paying attention to the Middle East and North Africa? Dire is already here.
- criley2 10y ago>Climate change is not a 80 year apocalyptic concern, you will be long gone before the dire consequences are reached. Nothing changes until everything changes all at once. Civilization has a huge, but not unlimited, ability to withstand huge shocks. Climate change does many things. More intense and frequent storms. More droughts. More floods. More firestorms/forest fires. More hurricanes and tornadoes. All of these things stress systems. Which systems can withstand an ever increasing ramp up towards more stress and shock? Which systems can't? Will the ones that can't take down the others through a chain reaction of refugees and mass humanitarian crises? It's way more complicated than "don't worry for 80 years".
- tiatia 10y ago2) New Zealand would be a decent choice I guess http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/01/technology/peter-thiel-new-zealand-citizenship/ http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/01/technology/peter-thiel-new-z... But positioning yourself is also a good idea. I can stay unlimited in three continents with the option of a fourth :-)