I counter the hypothetical with an actual reality!
The current rate of resource consumption by the human race guarantees complete and total collapse of anything resembling todays human society within the next 50 years, followed by a near extinction level population crash.
The surviving societies would then have no way left to re-enter the industrial age, as all easily accessible natural resources were mined out long ago, and they would lack the technology needed to access deeper veins/wells/etc.
This is not hypothetical, this is actually going to happen and humanity has said “we don’t give a shit”. This is not doomerism, this is proven scientific fact.
Climate scientists have been screaming and shouting about this for decades trying to get anyone to listen. We are way way way too late to stop it now.
Might as well enjoy some bluefin tuna before they go extinct too.
Totally agree that this is one of the most likely scenario, but I wouldn’t say it is going to happen with 100% confidence. We need to act accordingly, and trying to prevent it, but there is still a slim possibility that we manage to fix it.
I counter the hypothetical with an actual reality!
The current rate of resource consumption by the human race guarantees complete and total collapse of anything resembling todays human society within the next 50 years, followed by a near extinction level population crash.
The surviving societies would then have no way left to re-enter the industrial age, as all easily accessible natural resources were mined out long ago, and they would lack the technology needed to access deeper veins/wells/etc.
This is not hypothetical, this is actually going to happen and humanity has said “we don’t give a shit”. This is not doomerism, this is proven scientific fact.
Climate scientists have been screaming and shouting about this for decades trying to get anyone to listen. We are way way way too late to stop it now.
Might as well enjoy some bluefin tuna before they go extinct too.
Yup, as someone who wants kids, the inevitability that is climate change is making me heavily reconsider the idea
Totally agree that this is one of the most likely scenario, but I wouldn’t say it is going to happen with 100% confidence. We need to act accordingly, and trying to prevent it, but there is still a slim possibility that we manage to fix it.