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.
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.
Humans will survive, but we may have some MAJOR population decreases. Earth will survive, nature will survive, one way or another.
No it won’t.
In 500-600Myrs, life under known parameters will be completely impossible.
I recently saw an estimate of around 2 billion more years.
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.
That’s exactly what the article I linked was about.
Excellent.
But our technology will have scaled, barring a repeated civilization and technology crash of epic proportions.
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.
The comment was about survivability. Not Utopia.