Petal_Chatoyance t1_it917yf wrote
Reply to comment by herscher12 in A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction. There’s a way to make civilization extinction-proof. But it won’t be easy. by mossadnik
Wow - you never heard of incurable disease or nuclear weapons in your entire life?
You must be very, very young. And sheltered.
herscher12 t1_it9pn1t wrote
You must be undereducated if you think these two could wipe us out. Or you just never really thought about it.
There will always be survivors to repopulate.
Petal_Chatoyance t1_ita1m34 wrote
And what if there are? We have passed peak, essentially, everything. All of the easily-obtainable metals, fuel, and other unrenewable resources have been used up. That is why we have to make use of fracking, deep drilling, and high tech to acquire more.
Any survivors of a cataclysm are going to be unable to ever begin another industrial revolution. They will never be able to jumpstart a technological civilization again. The industrial revolution was one-shot because we literally had coal and metal laying about in streams or just under the dirt of a hill. That's all used now.
That means living like Amish, farmers, and nothing more, until the sun expands and devours the earth, sterilizing it forever. No space, no colonies off-world, no more computers, no more televisions, no more video games. Just hard work, short lives, and early deaths, for however long Man exists. No future beyond just being an agricultural animal who can only curse your generation for the end of all hope.
The 13th century, for the rest of the human experience. Serfs tilling soil, and nothing more, not ever, period, amen.
That is not worth surviving for. That is literally a dead end.
herscher12 t1_it9t09l wrote
Tell me how, there are not nearly enought nukes and nuclear winter is manageable. An incurable disease could only exist as a really stupid bio weapon. It also couldnt reach everyone.
Any better ideas?
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