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It's nice to hear from you, Dr. Strangelove. How is life in the bunker? There are so many unanticipated consequences of the extinction event we are currently s
by billiam 12y ago
It's nice to hear from you, Dr. Strangelove. How is life in the bunker?
There are so many unanticipated consequences of the extinction event we are currently slipping into that I think it is pointless to speculate in a sentence or two. The geologic record of past major extinctions (there have probably been many more minor ones) is extremely fragmentary and inconclusive. How fast can species, including ours, adapt to huge change? It is all about mutation and speciation rates. In some ways we have suppressed mutation rates by limiting disease and lengethning life; in other ways we have sped it up with synthetic chemicals and genetic engineering. Who's to say?
- grondilu 12y ago> It's nice to hear from you, Dr. Strangelove. How is life in the bunker? I'm not discussing how good or bad life would be if we were to mitigate a severe environmental crisis. I'm discussing whether or not it would provoke human extinction. And to me that seems very much unlikely.
- lifeformed 12y agoWell, I don't think the question at hand is simply how to avert human extinction, but how to avert disaster for humankind.
- grondilu 12y agoIt pretty much was, for the word "extinction" was indeed used. Would a severe environmental crisis be a disaster for Mankind? Sure, I can totally agree with that. But I will object if you say it would cause its extinction.