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Doom sells and fuels consumerism. The plane crash gets reported while thousands land safely unmentioned. Allow me to take a contrary tack. Humans are now in a p
by bananacurve 13y ago
Doom sells and fuels consumerism. The plane crash gets reported while thousands land safely unmentioned. Allow me to take a contrary tack. Humans are now in a position to find and divert a world ending impact event. The slope of progress has never been steeper and we survived the biggest threat, global nuclear war. We will prevail with quiet aplomb and all that will be deemed too uninteresting to be reported.
- dmd 13y ago> survived the biggest thread, global nuclear war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg seems to disagree.
- Daishiman 13y ago...or not. The phenomena of modern times are exponential in nature and difficult to predict, but past success is no guarantee of future survival. Nuclear war is peanuts compared to climate change; this is an issue several orders of magnitude worse.
- bananacurve 13y ago>Nuclear war is peanuts compared to climate change; this is an issue several orders of magnitude worse. Hyperbole undermines veracity.