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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by titzer on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:51AM (#18335625)
> I'm afraid the problem will fix itself soon enough. WW3 could be around the corner according to the people behind the Doomsday Clock.

Nah, I doubt it. War is bad for business, and the global economy needs peace in order to extract maximum profit. Best to keep those wars to little backwater countries so we can keep spending trillions on mega-high-tech weapons without really disrupting the flow of money to bigcorp.

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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by stephengillie on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:28AM (#18335849)
War is good for business - 34th Rule of Acquisition (Ferengi, Star Trek)
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by titzer on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:43AM (#18335945)
Well, war is good for the war racket, but generally not good for trade in the vast majority of other goods.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by bpicolo on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:09AM (#18336087)
Globalization is in full swing drastically more than it was during large-scale wartime. Hard to imagine a world war happening in that context
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by wcoenen on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:58PM (#18338761)
Right before world war I, globalization was peaking and people also thought that large scale war was impossible because of it.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by saiya-jin on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:40AM (#18336315)
Not in the current context, but imagine darker world, people pushed into poverty, starvation, desperation. Dictatorships, people like Trump would be fondly remembered for their friendly and kind policies. There are no limits how dark things can potentially get.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by stephengillie on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:51AM (#18336427)
You're thinking of the 35th Rule of Acquisition - Peace is good for business.
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