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Human kind will be gone in 1000 years? That’s a pessimistic view. I hope not!
by camdenreslink 8y ago
Human kind will be gone in 1000 years? That’s a pessimistic view. I hope not!
- sanlyx 8y agoMaybe not humans but instead what we deem as the only thing that's inherent to all of us (humanity?) will be long gone by then.
- isostatic 8y agoIt's interesting. It's either an optimistic view or a pessimistic view. remember the concept of innocent childhood only really took off in the west in Victorian times - think of how much changes in the last generation, the last century, the last 300 years But then compare the previous 2000 years. Would someone from Plato's era be that unrecognisable to someone from renaissance Florence? (or vice Versa) What will the next 200 years bring? What about the next 500?
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoIt seems quite likely to me, maybe not every trace of human kind but I find it quite difficult to believe we are going to survive climate change in any significant way.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoAh, we've survived a few ice ages, should be fine. Well, some of us anyway; I'm sure a lot of places will be abandoned / evacuated due to it being crushed by a few hundred meters of ice, and a lot of people will die from starvation and the inevitable war for resources and hospitable areas.
- EADGBE 8y agoYes, but apparently will send birthday cards to each other, too. (?)