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My naive impression is that the safest bet for survival would be to improve our technological mastery to a point where we can create near-closed and self suffic
by worldsayshi 8y ago
My naive impression is that the safest bet for survival would be to improve our technological mastery to a point where we can create near-closed and self sufficient ecosystems for small populations that they can be fully in control of, like deep space habitats. Such habitats should be able to support life inside indefinitely and be able to produce new habitat. And we need to make sure that we can maintain a high level of technological competence even if our population would be severely diminished. Perhaps then can civilization survive almost anything. Not sure if this is a pipe dream.
- monktastic1 8y agoWouldn't the materials needed to build and maintain such environments ultimately have to come from nature?
- worldsayshi 8y agoSure, but ideally that nature could be outside our biosphere so that we don't depend on it.
- gerbilly 8y ago> Such habitats should be able to support life inside indefinitely and be able to produce new habitat... We have this already, and it's free. We're just too short sighted as a species to fully appreciate it, so we degrade or even destroy those habitats for short term gains.