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Of course humans will survive, but what about our civilization? That seems less likely. I also fear the "natural correction" will be violent, painful, and pote
by Tronno 7y ago
Of course humans will survive, but what about our civilization? That seems less likely.
I also fear the "natural correction" will be violent, painful, and potentially apocalyptic in scale. Watching everything we built crumble, watching our children suffer, etc, would be horrific. We have to do something.
- brenden2 7y agoEntire civilizations have been destroyed before, notably the Roman Empire. Humans came back stronger and more well off.
- ncmncm 7y agoHumans, outside cities, were not then dependent on long-distance food transport. Furthermore, the Roman Empire was not destroyed. It declined over centuries. Catastrophic collapse is an entirely different phenomenon. It matters which humans. If you mean that after six billion starve, the remnants will have access to substantial remaining infrastructure, OK. Probably the wars won't destroy most of it.
- brenden2 7y agoFWIW the word "collapse" appears 7 times in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
- ncmncm 7y agoThe retraction of the western part of the empire, and move of the capital to Constantinople, was conflated as a collapse via the anti-oriental bias of Gibbons, which has colored subsequent perceptions. The Empire carried on as a major power for centuries after.