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In the immortal words of George Carlin, "The Planet is fine, the people are fucked".

• travisjungroth 5y ago
  To me, the idea that Mother Earth is giving birth to something is very clear. I just don't know how that birth is going to end up. Will the child kill the mother? Will they both die? And what is being born? Maybe it's a space-fairing race of humans. Or maybe humans are just the eggshell that machine consciousness will break on its way out.
• JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  > In the immortal words of George Carlin, "The Planet is fine, the people are fucked" It is well within humanity's capacity to, potentially permanently but at least for tens of millions of years, end the Earth's ability to host macroscopic life. Within a few decades, we'll likely have the ability to end the Earth's life-supporting ability period. I get the message behind the meme. But unfortunately, our actions have consequences beyond our selves. It's easier to think we're just fucking our own when in fact we're doing much worse.
  • rimliu 5y ago
    We could not end Earth's ability to support life even if we tried our best at it.
    • pritambaral 5y ago
      Not even with all-out nuclear warfare?
      • JumpCrisscross 5y ago
        > Not even with all-out nuclear warfare? We don't even have enough nukes to wipe out the human race, let alone the biosphere. Building enough to would likely need more uranium than we can access with known technology.
        • pritambaral 5y ago
          That's ... the opposite of what I was taught in History at school, but I'm no expert at this.
    • JumpCrisscross 5y ago
      > We could not end Earth's ability to support life even if we tried our best at it We’re within a few decades of a global superpower being able to deflect a large asteroid which would, after millennia or even centuries, impact the Earth with enough energy to melt the crust several kilometres down.