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This planet harbored life for billions of years. Our modern civilization is few thousand years old, broadly speaking, we only industrialized two hundred years a
by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
This planet harbored life for billions of years. Our modern civilization is few thousand years old, broadly speaking, we only industrialized two hundred years ago, and suddenly we have "limited time"?
I wonder if you realize the reason our time is limited is because we keep multiplying indiscriminately, thus destroying our entire habitat and exhausting our resources.
And your solution to multiplying indiscriminately is to multiply even more indiscriminately all over other planets.
Our time is not limited. Nor is our ignorance.
- sublinear 3y ago> Our time is not limited. I didn't word my comment as a question, but I'm genuinely curious what makes you say that with confidence. I don't think we understand all threats to our existence beyond geopolitics.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoYour quote was the final thing I said, and everything I said before is what made me say that. We're in a situation where we're a tumor growing on Earth. and we see our growth threatens Earth, so the solution is "we need to spread around so we can keep growing even more". An alternative solution is to control our growth (which doesn't only concern biological reproduction but also economical). Which will give us practically infinite time. Technically the notion that "we" (homo sapiens) can spread to other planets is nonsense. Whatever we spread to other planets, if anything, won't be human, one way or another. Because a human is bound to its environment.