Woolygimp
Bronze Knight of the Realm
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I honestly think it's close to 90% or higher that civilization collapses, or we destroy ourselves. We can't control our population or consumption, and are unwilling to even try. If global warming starts causing real world consequences, people start starving, and it drives large scale migrations - we're fucked, because that'll lead to inevitable war as we fight over the remaining food production.
Best case scenario is a disease wipes out a large portion of the population, and then we'll probably be able to do a controlled climb. If nature doesn't cull us, then we'll do it to ourselves. I'm a heavy, heavy cynic when it comes to the future. I have absolutely no faith in humanity; and now that we're armed with nuclear weapons it's literally only. a. matter. of. time. They're too easy to create too, and they're going to keep spreading until a nation is willing to use them.
People who think we'll have a Star Trek like future and expand to the stars... are fucking retarded.
Technology is a double edged swords. It has benefits, but it also increases our capacity for destruction, mainly our own.
Best case scenario is a disease wipes out a large portion of the population, and then we'll probably be able to do a controlled climb. If nature doesn't cull us, then we'll do it to ourselves. I'm a heavy, heavy cynic when it comes to the future. I have absolutely no faith in humanity; and now that we're armed with nuclear weapons it's literally only. a. matter. of. time. They're too easy to create too, and they're going to keep spreading until a nation is willing to use them.
People who think we'll have a Star Trek like future and expand to the stars... are fucking retarded.
Technology is a double edged swords. It has benefits, but it also increases our capacity for destruction, mainly our own.
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