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> But destroy the world? If by "world", it meant "human world", not "the planet", and your intention were to bring our civilization into total chaos, post-Roma
by jhgb 5y ago
> But destroy the world?
If by "world", it meant "human world", not "the planet", and your intention were to bring our civilization into total chaos, post-Roman-Empire-style, then you'd think that killing a billion people in just the right places would be a pretty good start.
- mnw21cam 5y agoThis link definitely deserves to be referenced here: https://qntm.org/destroy https://qntm.org/destroy "You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world. "Fools. "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron."
- nkrisc 5y agoIf you kill all humans then who cares if the planet is still around or not?