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Does anybody else feel like this is the answer to the Fermi paradox? Advanced civilizations simply exploit, consume, and pollute their way of existence.
by julienchastang 1mo ago
Does anybody else feel like this is the answer to the Fermi paradox? Advanced civilizations simply exploit, consume, and pollute their way of existence.
- swingboy 1mo ago14 billion years and not a single piece of evidence of a prior civilization.
- deepfriedchokes 1mo agoAs they say, “power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Perhaps humanity shouldn’t have absolute power over the planet. Perhaps we should check our own power to save ourselves. We’ve done it with government, to insure stability and longevity, why not the planet?
- slidehero 1mo ago>why not the planet? greed
- ColdStream 1mo agoLove the planet as you love your self. Just be. Easy to say, difficult to do.
- Ancalagon 1mo agoPromoting sociopathy via a capitalist hierarchy that ruin the planet for their own selfish gain feels like a very primate thing to do. I bet there would be many other forms of communal, generous intelligent civilizations with longer-term thinking capability, especially if they lived longer than ~75 years on average. So consider my take on this statement inconclusive.
- jesse_dot_id 1mo agoIt's as easy of an answer to accept as any other hypothesis. I think we're all living within a simulation to create, solve, and document as many problems as we can with the technologies our specific environment allows us to develop; that our simulation is air-gapped away from the others performing the same work so as to not contaminate the data.
- cogman10 1mo agoHonestly, I think an easier answer is that intelligent life is simply very rare and interstellar travel is very hard. We may be the only intelligent life within our galaxy. Or perhaps just 1 in 100. In either case, it'd take a LONG time before we ever found or met another civilization.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1mo agoWhat if we found ourselves on a planet that didn't have fossil fuels?
- ColdStream 1mo agoThen there is a good chance we would never have moved up to a technological state that allowed us to leave the planet. We probably wouldn't also be facing blow back from digging up and burning the planets solar battery.
- PowerElectronix 1mo agoWe'd go mass extinction and be the fossil fuels for the next intelligent species that appears.
- UncleSlacky 1mo agoWe'd be using wind and water power, as we've done since well before the Industrial Revolution.
- ColdStream 1mo agoIt has been brought up before and it seems plausible. There is no guarantee that we have to leave the planet in any meaningful way or even survive for that matter.
- PowerElectronix 1mo agoNah, they can't go multiplanetary because faster than rocket powered travel in space must be impossible and they die of radiation during the journey. Planetary runaway heating can be worked with with underground cities.
- sajithdilshan 1mo agoMost probably it's because the universe is vast and as humans we cannot comprehend how far the stars are. No matter how advanced an alien civilization is, physics prohibits objects with mass travelling faster than light and that's tru for any civilization.