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Humanity survived ice age(s) with much less technology. It’s going to take much more than that.
by f6v 3y ago
Humanity survived ice age(s) with much less technology. It’s going to take much more than that.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoA couple of problems: 1. We no longer have access to easy to mine resources, which is also how we know that there weren't any really advanced civilizations prior us. 2. A lot of knowledge has been lost on how to do the incremental steps between ice age to here. 3. Lots of people will die. 4. We have very little genetic diversity as a consequence of the previous ice-ages, and we haven't actually recovered.
- 6D794163636F756 3y ago1.) It's easier to contain or add energy that remove it from a system 2.) The ice ages occured more gradually so didn't disrupt food systems as much 3.) Ice age wood is great for instrument making so we got sweet string instruments out of it 4.) Most hominems died in the last ice age. It's speculated that all non homosapien species were wiped out during or due to the ice age.
- fabrice_d 3y agoSo far we mostly used technology to fuck things up.
- irrational 3y agoEspecially Tinder and Grindr.
- anigbrowl 3y agoI think you're making the mistake of equating 'humanity' with 'the vast majority of people' rather than 'human survivors in a specific geographic zone', as well as underestimating the speed of change relative to historical fluctuations.
- mupuff1234 3y agoPerhaps, but I'm not exactly looking forward to a future where surviving is the main objective.
- delecti 3y agoIf there were only 1 million people alive in 2030, you could reasonably say humanity had "survived", but also say that most people today in 2023 are "doomed". The prognosis is certainly much better than that, but "humanity survived" is a very low bar.