Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by f6v on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:48PM
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Humanity survived ice age(s) with much less technology. It’s going to take much more than that.
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Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by 6D794163636F756 on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:55PM
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1.) It's easier to contain or add energy that remove it from a system
2.) The ice ages occured more gradually so didn't disrupt food systems as much
3.) Ice age wood is great for instrument making so we got sweet string instruments out of it
4.) Most hominems died in the last ice age. It's speculated that all non homosapien species were wiped out during or due to the ice age.
Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by anigbrowl on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:09PM
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I think you're making the mistake of equating 'humanity' with 'the vast majority of people' rather than 'human survivors in a specific geographic zone', as well as underestimating the speed of change relative to historical fluctuations.
Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by mupuff1234 on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:15PM
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Perhaps, but I'm not exactly looking forward to a future where surviving is the main objective.
Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by PartiallyTyped on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:55PM
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A couple of problems:
1. We no longer have access to easy to mine resources, which is also how we know that there weren't any really advanced civilizations prior us.
2. A lot of knowledge has been lost on how to do the incremental steps between ice age to here.
3. Lots of people will die.
4. We have very little genetic diversity as a consequence of the previous ice-ages, and we haven't actually recovered.
Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by fabrice_d on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:57PM
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So far we mostly used technology to fuck things up.
Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by irrational on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:07PM
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Especially Tinder and Grindr.
Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
by delecti on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:22PM
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If there were only 1 million people alive in 2030, you could reasonably say humanity had "survived", but also say that most people today in 2023 are "doomed". The prognosis is certainly much better than that, but "humanity survived" is a very low bar.