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Making an exception to Betteridge's law of headlines, I would say YES. Ok, I mean, maybe "no", if humankind disappear completely in a matter of weeks, or some
by psychoslave 3y ago
Making an exception to Betteridge's law of headlines, I would say YES.
Ok, I mean, maybe "no", if humankind disappear completely in a matter of weeks, or some significant part at least, to the point industrial civilization won’t be logistically possible anymore for at least a few centuries.
Otherwise my bet is we are collectively too dumb to overcome issues generated by our own technical advancements. I sincerely hope I’m wrong though.
Also, I don’t think there is really anything we can do that will make Earth completely inhabitable. Maybe unsustainable for any human, but surely life will go on still for a few [bm]illion years here in one form or an other. :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
- esarbe 3y agoI'm not worried about Earth. Earth will be fine. Give or take a few million years and not much of mankind's adventurism will be left and the ecosystem will have restored itself. It will just be the end of that whole "mankind" experiment.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoGive or take a few billions years and earth won't be fine. These aren't reasons to not worry about what concerns us directly now. > It will just be the end of that whole "mankind" experiment. Even the universe shall come to standstill eventually, when the last moving photon will stop moving or something. Should we be nihilistic and do nothing because of that?
- esarbe 3y ago> Should we be nihilistic and do nothing because of that? No, not at all. But let's be honest about the stakes. We don't need to save Earth for Earth's sake. We need to save Earth for our own sake. This is not about tree-hugging and kumbaia-singing. This is about the survival of our global civilization.