Re:Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species
by TeMPOraL on Saturday June 17, 2017 @07:17AM
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> He usually prefers the much more vague concept of end of our "technological civilization".
That's a reasonable view too, IMO. If our technological civilization suddenly collapses for any reason, most of us here, and double-digit percentage of world population, will die a painful death. The lives of whoever remains won't be pleasant, and the technological civilization probably won't arise again for tens of thousands of years (given how we've used up all easily accessible energy sources).
Life is very resilient. Humanity as we know it is not.
That's a reasonable view too, IMO. If our technological civilization suddenly collapses for any reason, most of us here, and double-digit percentage of world population, will die a painful death. The lives of whoever remains won't be pleasant, and the technological civilization probably won't arise again for tens of thousands of years (given how we've used up all easily accessible energy sources).
Life is very resilient. Humanity as we know it is not.