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"Easter Island 2: Earth" is going to be so much more entertaining for the people 1000 years from now. We didn't get to read through all their "why cutting down
by themgt 15y ago
"Easter Island 2: Earth" is going to be so much more entertaining for the people 1000 years from now. We didn't get to read through all their "why cutting down the last tree won't be so bad - plus we need more Moai statues" hack WSJ op-eds from concerned islander scientists
What I learned from this letter: CO2 emissions are good for plants and poor people; controlling CO2 emissions is Stalin
- shingen 15y agoHumans won't be around in 1,000 years. Our shelf life is nearly at expiration. We'll become some other configuration of life.
- gus_massa 15y agoModern humans appeared 100.000 / 200.000 years ago. We probably won't evolve into a new specie in the next 1.000 years.
- Zancarius 15y agoHowever, we're fully capable of annihilating ourselves or at least obliterating a significant chunk of our population. I believe that's what shingen may have been alluding to.
- shingen 15y agoI'm saying that our own evolution is now directly in our hands. At the current rate of change, much less a further acceleration, what we'll be able to do to ourselves engineering wise in just the next 50 years will be dramatic. Normal evolution is over for humans. We will self-evolve by action and choice. In 1,000 year - whatever we are at that point, we will not be human as we recognize the term today. Whether it's a super mutant form, still organic and engineered to the moon; or cyborg in shell, with a soft organic inside; or stored digitally in organic matter; or any variation there of. There are a lot of possibilities, the one with zero chance of being around in 1,000 is the form we currently take on.