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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by lukifer on Monday September 09, 2013 @04:47PM (#6356069)
The same logic applies to asteroid strikes, climate change and potential ecology collapses as well. Whatever the odds are, they are decidedly non-astronomic, and therefore should be taken seriously.
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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by r00fus on Monday September 09, 2013 @06:42PM (#6356781)
And the US had budget for things like asteroid strikes (at least until the sequester).

But it can only be taken seriously if the actors with sufficient power actually care about said future and not, for example, present profits to the exclusion of all else.

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