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Thursday, 26 April 2018
quote [ The 86-year-old social scientist says accepting the impending end of most life on Earth might be the very thing needed to help us prolong it ]
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Kama-Kiri said @ 5:37am GMT on 26th April
I should note that while I agree with his bleak assessment, I feel it is only one of two possible outcomes: either civilization will break down, or we will adapt. Humans are nothing if not adaptable. That's the one thing we are good at. For Hillman it necessarily goes from Ryanair weekends in Ibiza to the full global Mad Max experience. My take is that if the changes are gradual enough humanity will change over 10-15 generations without the necessity of global catastrophe. The end point will look rather similar, but we won't be able to go and point out the exact date and day of the end of the world.
Kama-Kiri said @ 5:38am GMT on 26th April
I should note that while I agree with his bleak assessment, I feel it is only one of two possible outcomes: either civilization will break down, or we will adapt. Humans are nothing if not adaptable. That's the one thing we are good at. For Hillman it necessarily goes from Ryanair weekends in Ibiza to the full global Mad Max experience. My take is that if the environmental changes are gradual enough humanity will change over 10-15 generations without the necessity of global catastrophe. The end point will look rather similar, but we won't be able to go and point out the exact date and day of the end of the world.
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Kama-Kiri said @ 5:37am GMT on 26th April
I should note that while I agree with his bleak assessment, I feel it is only one of two possible outcomes: either civilization will break down, or we will adapt. Humans are nothing if not adaptable. That's the one thing we are good at. For Hillman it necessarily goes from Ryanair weekends in Ibiza to the full global Mad Max experience. My take is that if the environmental changes are gradual enough humanity will change over 10-15 generations without the necessity of global catastrophe. The end point will look rather similar, but we won't be able to go and point out the exact date and day of the end of the world.
Damn.