What do you see in the future of humanity?

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clearspira
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Re: What do you see in the future of humanity?

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A give the human race a 50/50 shot of making it past 2100 with the comfort that we enjoy today.

1) Anti-biotic resistant diseases and our failure to combat them.
2) Climate change, in particular the potential of rising sea levels wiping out coastal towns and driving millions of environmental migrants inland.
3) The rise in people who deny the first two are things.
4) The rise in automation destroying the job market.
5) An ever increasing population.
6) I don't trust that governments will use genetic engineering, AI and nanotech responsibly. Not one little bit.
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Re: What do you see in the future of humanity?

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If there's one thing I've learned about climate change, it's that the apocolypse isn't necessarily a big, dramatic, abrupt shift.

The end of civlization and the planet becoming uninhabitable to human life can become a slow, subtle, sneaky thing that laps at your ankles. Boiling frogs, it's a little each day, until suddenly you're the proud owner of beachfront property in Ohio.

Also not going to rule out the chance of a wolf eating the sun and the moon while bonds of kith and kin dissolve and a winter lasts three years without summer or spring.
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Re: What do you see in the future of humanity?

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clearspira wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:25 am A give the human race a 50/50 shot of making it past 2100 with the comfort that we enjoy today.

1) Anti-biotic resistant diseases and our failure to combat them.
2) Climate change, in particular the potential of rising sea levels wiping out coastal towns and driving millions of environmental migrants inland.
3) The rise in people who deny the first two are things.
4) The rise in automation destroying the job market.
5) An ever increasing population.
6) I don't trust that governments will use genetic engineering, AI and nanotech responsibly. Not one little bit.
Those could cause a lot of problems but they aren't going to wipe out the human race (except maybe 6).
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