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'Mother' Gaia will wipe all complex life from this planet with 1 to 1.5 Billion years if her 'undisciplined' puppies don't find a way to leave this ball of dirt
by c048 2y ago
'Mother' Gaia will wipe all complex life from this planet with 1 to 1.5 Billion years if her 'undisciplined' puppies don't find a way to leave this ball of dirt.
She's also got quite a lead with killing off 99.99999% of all species that ever lived, when compared to us.
- BirAdam 2y agoSounds like a challenge for which our species is well suited.
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- gmd63 2y agoEveryone hell bent on leaving is actually distracted from the real less immediately glamorous challenge, which is learning to sustain life and exercise restraint.
- andybak 2y agoI think the point is that we need both. One is short/medium term and the other is medium/long term. An asteroid/comet impact big enough to wipe us out is a statistically certainty - not science fiction.
- itsoktocry 2y ago>Everyone hell bent on leaving is actually distracted from the real less immediately glamorous challenge, which is learning to sustain life and exercise restraint. Unless you're willing to exterminate people who don't comply, the incentives are such that maintaining the status quo will give economic (and military) advantages. Besides, over long time scales there's more to fear than a few degrees of climate change.
- saagarjha 2y agoThere are plenty of things that give economic and military advantages that we thwart.
- jessetemp 2y agoThey’re probably referring to the earth getting enveloped by the sun in a billion or so years as it expands. I still think you’re right though. The better plan is staying on earth. The trick is moving it outward as the habitable zone expands with the sun. Only have to convince humanity to sling a giant meteor just outside earth’s orbit every year for millions of years without messing up. What could go wrong?
- triceratops 2y ago> They’re probably referring to the earth getting enveloped by the sun in a billion or so years as it expands. Mother Gaia refers to the Earth, not the sun.
- sniggers 2y agoRestraint won't make the unpredictable gamma ray burst or unstoppably-sized asteroid go away.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoOr has realized that even with sustaining life and exercising restraint, there are enough people, who do not care and destroy all positive outcomes.
- randomopining 2y agoYou think leaving earth is the solution? The only place we've evolved to survive on.
- 14 2y agoDefinitely not the solution. Ending capitalism for some other form of economy is the only way in my opinion. Not that I don’t think people should be rewarded for the products and services they offer just that the incentive to make cheap shit and sell an upgrade every year is definitely harmful to our earth. The problem I see is I don’t know what type of economic solution there is that would fit.
- hellojesus 2y agoI have yet to hear of an economic model that humans have discovered which is better than free market capitalism. The issue isn't the cheap junk; it's the demand for the cheap junk. Things would be far more sustainable if people focused on reducing their consumption habbits, as producers would be run out of business.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoThe free market is probably the best we are going to get, but we need to address some of its known failure modes: externalities, monopolies, and the imbalance of power between employers and employees.
- hellojesus 2y agoThese are all addressable by the individual. Externalities: any negative externality upon an involuntarily third party can become illegal via law. This can cover things like littering, servitude, etc. Monopolies: the free market has yet to produce a monopoly that increases prices for consumers if there isn't a natural monopoly. The gov deals with allocation of naturally constrained resources such as radio frequencies. Imbalance of power: just save more. Save enough so you can wake up comfortable with the idea that you were fired overnight. It dissolves any power imbalance when your boss needs you as much as you need the income.
- airstrike 2y agoLuckily we have 1 to 1.5 billion years to figure out how to survive outside of this ball of dirt... (cataclysmic asteroids and other similar events notwithstanding)