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I hate this kind of headlines. There's very little chance that civilization will "end" by 2050: the two world wars barely made any dent on "human civilization"
by yongjik 7y ago
I hate this kind of headlines. There's very little chance that civilization will "end" by 2050: the two world wars barely made any dent on "human civilization".
This kind of rhetoric only sets up an impossible bar and serves to invite the anti-rhetoric that is "Of course it will be fine, because humanity will not end!"
- notfromhere 7y agotwo world wars couldn't impact the ability of agriculture to feed 7+ billion people
- commandlinefan 7y agoWell, I guess then that depends on what you mean by “civilization” ending. If the food runs out, humans will continue to exist, but probably not in a way that we would consider to be particularly civilized by modern standards. If 3.5 billion people need to turn against the other 3.5 billion to survive, it’s pretty likely that they will.
- notfromhere 7y agocivilization ending means the end of large-scale, complex human societies built around the specialization of labor
- LinuxBender 7y agoAgreed. We can certainly engineer around climate changes. About the only thing that might end us would be another asteroid impact of notable size. i.e. Indian Ocean 5k BC, Greenland 12.6k BC. Even then our current hunter-gatherers outside the immediate blast area and not near the coastlines would likely survive.