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Although a good sentiment, the information age coupled with more advanced climate models makes us much better at predicting. Additionally, it's only been withi
by behindsight 7y ago
Although a good sentiment, the information age coupled with more advanced climate models makes us much better at predicting.
Additionally, it's only been within the last century where we've been technologically capable of causing a mass-extinction level event via nuclear weapons. Here's a fun list of close-calls [0]
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
- dwighttk 7y ago>much better at predicting Citation needed
- darth_skywalker 7y agoThis is a fair point - it's hard to predict the future with our current technology given the difficulty of envisioning future technology.