|
Raenir Salazar posted:Other interesting topics would be the eventual and inevitable genetically engineered humans via the technological successors to techniques like CRISPR being commercialized and widely available. Oh yeah, genetic engineering is a total wildcard in all of this as far as I can tell. I wouldn't be surprised to see attempts to engineer whole ecosystems and biospheres as things continue to get worse and worse more quickly. Who the hell knows what things will look like in 30, 40, 50 years.
|
#
¿
Oct 15, 2020 23:33
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 12, 2024 05:22 |
|
|
DrSunshine posted:So you guys, let's have it out right now. How many of you think that the human race/most mammalian life will be extinct before the end of the century? And why? If we're at the point where that is actually a thing that will happen then we're already too far gone to fix it, and so as far as I'm concerned it's not something worth dwelling on.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 12, 2020 08:35
|
|
|
Rappaport posted:Does the "why" matter at this point? We have avowed nihilists such as the poster above saying they don't care so long as they get to consume their way around culture before "the Road" becomes a reality, so why bother? John Oliver's show recently cited a study that said octopi are more prone to hugging once they ingest ecstasy, so it's not like a mammalian-devoid globe will be all awful. I'm sorry? What about what I said makes you think I'm a nihilist?
|
|
#
¿
Nov 12, 2020 09:04
|
|
|
Rappaport posted:Oh, the we're too far gone to fix anything so let's just ride the wave baby rhetoric. I'm sorry if I misinterpreted that, though! Nah, I don't believe that we're too far gone. I am trying to live a life where I'm plugged into and doing work to help fix the problems. I know things are very bad, and the science indicates that there may be possibilities where things could rapidly get worse to the extent that the OP was talking about in their prompt. But, personally, for me if everything we could ever hope to accomplish w/r/t mitigating climate change could end up meaning jack poo poo and we're all doomed regardless then I'd prefer to just not dwell on it and continue to have some hope and work hard towards doing whatever we can. That's what's working for me, and though all I have is my personal experience with choosing to go with some Optimism, it sure is better than I was 4 or 5 years ago when I was in full climate-doom nothing matters headspace and deeply, clinically depressed.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 12, 2020 10:02
|
|