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> There’s No Planet B The mere need to state this suggests we are facing a serious problem internalizing our condition. We are not taking seriously the implica
by college_physics 4y ago
> There’s No Planet B
The mere need to state this suggests we are facing a serious problem internalizing our condition. We are not taking seriously the implications of human choices and actions when multiplied by billions.
The sustainability of our living on Earth was not even a visible problem 300 years ago [0]. It is far more of a problem now and could become a terminal problem 300 years from now.
300 years is nothing in the scheme of things. We should be scared. Not in a superficial, panicky way, but in a deep, culture-changing way. Obviously the problem does not yet hit the present generations severely enough (hence the luxury of idle talk). But it will certainly hit the ones following in the near future.
[0] Alexander von Humbolt seems to be the first author that articulated environmental risk circa ~1800.
- palata 4y agoWe don't have a lot of generations before major changes happen. I believe that we won't prevent anything: we'll just try to survive to whatever happens, more or less successfully.
- college_physics 4y agoIts a plausible scenario. If past collapse events are a guide, future humans will simply accept whatever loss, blame it on barbaric earlier civilizations and move on with whatever is available. The difference is that we don't consider ourselves "barbarians", but maybe nobody did in the past either...
- poulpy123 4y ago> The sustainability of our living on Earth was not even a visible problem 300 years ago It was not even a problem 100 years ago, and I would even say 50 years ago except for some people (some being crazy)