Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?
dan1101@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Humans will survive, but we may have some MAJOR population decreases. Earth will survive, nature will survive, one way or another.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 days ago
No it won’t.
In 500-600Myrs, life under known parameters will be completely impossible.
Talaraine@fedia.io 6 days ago
But our technology will have scaled, barring a repeated civilization and technology crash of epic proportions.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 days ago
Bullshit.
Our “technology,” culture, practice and morality keeps proving that the rich are obsessed with their wealth, power and privilege, and don’t give a flying fluff about future needs nor adaptation.
Your presumption is that age-old one that naively assumes that new tech = betterment of reality for the human condition. But it rarely actually works that way outside of stuff like vaccines.
Talaraine@fedia.io 5 days ago
The comment was about survivability. Not Utopia.
davidgro@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I recently saw an estimate of around 2 billion more years.
sj_zero@social.fbxl.net 6 days ago
I got on a geology kick one day, I came out wiser and much sadder.
davidgro@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh sure, I am sure they weren’t saying humanity would last that long (although technology may help), just ‘any plants’.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 days ago
500-600Myrs ahead (all while everything gets hotter and hotter, outpacing species ability to deal with it), photosynthesis as we know it will stop working.
davidgro@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s exactly what the article I linked was about.