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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by kortilla on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:12AM (#21330965)
> Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.

This is a joke not backed by any scientific consensus or evidence. Maybe some more instability in some countries, but nothing close to the collapse of civilization.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by bnegreve on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:26AM (#21331363)
When I see charts showing the temperature raising at exponential rate like this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...

I find it very hard to deny that something bad is going to happen eventually. Because whatever is the phenomenon that is pushing the temperatures up, I see no reason for it to stop.

So massive disruption in a near future is a reasonable hypothesis, rather than a joke.

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