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30 years is extremely pessimistic. Humans are amazing at adapting their environment to meet their needs and change is already occuring. I agree that 200 is the
by c22 2y ago
30 years is extremely pessimistic. Humans are amazing at adapting their environment to meet their needs and change is already occuring.
I agree that 200 is the high end of the range, but I have always been an optimist :)
I disagree vehemently that optimists are a bigger part of the problem than those who have lost all hope and given their agency over to the hands of fate.
We can agree that the longer it takes, the more will suffer.
At this point many will suffer. But extinction within the century is far from assured.
- 20after4 2y agoI would agree with you that extinction is not assured, however, we face many existential threats simultaneously. Some world leaders seem almost eager to play with their Nuclear arsenals. The climate change denying party just got a majority of every branch of the US government. The president elect wants to Drill Baby Drill. A huge fraction of the public think that climate change is a fraud, Elon Musk is going to fix the federal budget and a bunch of nonsense about the radiation from 5G (but not older cellular networks, for some reason). Oh and then there is the rapid rate at which we are burning fossil fuel to create waste heat, crypto blocks and disruptive AI.