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It's not prophecy. It's a fact that at current trends things are looking dire. The trend may change but only if people heed the warning. I don't know what wi

• kijin 9y ago
  100 years ago, some people made dire predictions that most cities would be buried in 9 feet of horse shit if people didn't act quickly to fix their reliance on horse-drawn carriages. A quarter century later, cars replaced horse-drawn carriages, averting the horse shit crisis. Not because people heeded the warning, but simply because cars were faster and sexier. Of course, we've just traded CO2 for horse shit, and now we've got a different problem. If history is any indication of what will happen in the future, we'll probably trade some other type of pollution for CO2 this century, and then another type.
  • yequalsx 9y ago
    Hence, the “current trends” portion of what I wrote. Also, history is not a guide in this matter. The creation of new tech depends on knowledge and it is not predictable whether or not enough new knowledge will be gained to offset current trends. It’s possibke but looking to the past is not an indicati9n that this will happpen in a particular area. Also, I was talking about solely about CO2. I was talking about deforestation, massive dumping of toxins, plastics and other forms of waste. It is without a doubt that at current trends humanity’s future is dire,