by KaiserJeep » Mon 11 Feb 2019, 13:38:51
Look, all personal affection for matters of Doom aside, it's hard to justify any alarm over anything short of a nuclear war, a giant meteor impact, or a super-volcano eruption. Those last two in particular have happened more than once, but are not predictable.
But all the favorite Doom scenarios seem pretty tame compared to the biggies above. Economic conniptions, forced major lifestyle changes, famines, pandemics, wars, overpopulation, etc. - even the favorite Doom of all around here, Climate Change - seem pretty small and lame compared to the things that have already happened, that the human race or it's predecessor species survived.
Then there are the embarrassing but completely true statistics that say that in spite of all the imagined and feared portents, in spite of the ever growing numbers of humans, things are on average improving and humans are today better off than ever before.
I have to say, I see no reason why we cannot survive and continue to survive for decades, or centuries, or indefinately, as things are changing at a slow and steady pace. It is possible that the ultimate carrying capacity of the planet is 10/20/30 billion humans. The oil peak when it happens will take decades to be felt, and is a disruption to energy-intensive lifestyles for the most part - and it will be decades before it is life threatening.
It seems most likely that human extinction may never happen. Very possibly the species that inherits the Earth may have human ancestry.
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