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Peak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels.
by RevRal 17y ago
Peak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels....
Sorry if I left something out. I feel like one of those comedians saying as many slurs possible.
Needless to say, we're plunging into some interesting years. 2012 just feels so... pivotal.
- fnid 17y agoAsteroids, comets, alien invasions, the singularity (aka robot invasions)...
- RevRal 17y ago"Our simulation gets turned off" can be tacked on too, but I was trying to think of things that are real, current, problems. Or more probable in the near future. My main point is that 2012 onward will be interesting without mystical interpretations of the celestial.
- thomaspaine 17y agoYou could say the same thing for 2009, 2010, 2011...
- RevRal 17y agoYes, every year will will be pretty interesting without "mystical interpretations of the celestial." I guess I failed to ask myself if 2013 will be more interesting than 2012. And the answer is, yes.
- gloob 17y agoPeak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels.... Peak Oil would be the end of the world in the same way that the cod crisis destroyed Canada. Pollution has been around for centuries and hasn't offed us yet. The threat of nuclear war is pretty much the only thing that stops real wars from happening between great powers. An out-of-control climate isn't something you talk about in the present tense, and won't be seen for twenty or thirty years if it happens at all. Tsunamis have been around as long as the oceans. Nuclear fallout at a civilization-threatening scale could only result from a nuclear war, which I just dealt with. Disease has been around for billions of years and medicine is getting better, not worse, at keeping people alive until they're in their mid-eighties or so. Rising sea levels will mostly inconvenience third-world island nations, if they become a problem at all. My prediction is that 2012 will be a hilarious year, because so many people will be so worked up about it.
- davidw 17y agoSounds like a great list of topics to flag.