Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?

• Talaraine@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But our technology will have scaled, barring a repeated civilization and technology crash of epic proportions.

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  • 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.

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    • Talaraine@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The comment was about survivability. Not Utopia.

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I recently saw an estimate of around 2 billion more years.

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  • sj_zero@social.fbxl.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It's going to be rougher even earlier than that. In a "mere" 250 million years we'll get another supercontinent, which sounds amazing but it's the sort of geological situation that lead to the destruction of most terrestrial life because all the land becomes a giant desert.
    
    I got on a geology kick one day, I came out wiser and much sadder.

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    • 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’.

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  • 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.

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s exactly what the article I linked was about.

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      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Excellent.

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