Lore wrote:First of all, I'm not aware of any fast doomers, aka fast crashers left on here?
True. Reality did to them just as it did to TOD.
Lore wrote:Saying that, there is really nothing at this point poised to stop the slow and ugly contraction of the human race.
Well, only if you define what is going on as a slow and ugly contraction, certainly if humans are continuing to grow in population, still using more fossil fuels, still growing their economies, doing the same sorts of things they have been doing for the last couple decades, it is difficult to rewrite as a slow and ugly contraction.
Unless you live in Detroit and have myopia anyway, obviously location and lack of perspective can convince any single person that the world is ending because for them...it is.
Lore wrote:As I've said, people do things until they can't anymore.
Or don't want to. Or choose to change their behavior. A great advantage humans have over the rest of the species of the planet.
Lore wrote:So, for many, it all looks just great and rosy on the surface now and they like to pretend it can always stay that way.
And for some it looks all slow and ugly contraction and they can pretend it will always stay that way.
Lore wrote:We're not so different from most of the animals on the planet. Human's would rather live under the illusion that every day they too can go down to the watering hole and drink without ever getting caught by the lion in the bushes.
We are so different from the rest of the animals on the planet, we carry guns down to the watering hole to drink, build a guard shack always armed to make sure any lion dumb enough to try again, fails, build a dam so the water hole gets bigger and handles more people, drop in some water pipe and engines to pull water in from the other side of the mountains, then go for a desalinization plant by the ocean powered by nukes to make sure the pond never empties.
There is reason why lions aren't top of the food chain, in a food chain involving humans.
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