We're all doomed! Curling up with a good read about the end of the world

How does the world collapse?

  • Climate change/ global warming/ sea level rise

    Votes: 7 29.2%

  • Resource depletion: we run out of oil/wood/farmland

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • World War: the nuclear option

    Votes: 10 41.7%

  • Natural Disaster: Yellowstone blows, comet hits

    Votes: 8 33.3%

  • Pollution: dead seas, deadly skies

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • Stomping it all down the drain

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • Overpopulation: fuck 'em all

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
    24
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Smoke a joint and read up;

http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/richard-heinberg-problem-is-that-we.html?m=1

I'd like to think humanity has what it takes to overcome all these challenges, but my gut doesn't think so.

Maybe our best best is to put millions of glorified shipping containers into orbit and live in them. Silent Running, only on a grander scale.

If we seed interplanetary space, maybe some of us will survive the nasty fate we are sentencing our earthly progeny to, even as we speak.

Suddenly saving strains and growing inside aren't just hobbies anymore; they're survival skills.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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GrowGorilla said:
I think it'll end in a nuclear war but not in our time
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I think the likelihood of nuclear war is a sooner rather than later thing. Either it happens in the next few decades or we will have headed off the danger as a civilisation.

That doesn't mean some rogue group or state might not engage in a bit of nuclear terrorism, Kim Jung Il style.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Unclebaldrick said:
Genetic evidence suggests that at one time the total number of homo sapiens numbered in the hundreds. It'll be alright. Eventually.
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I read somewhere that it happened about 75,000 years ago, right about the same time that the Toba Supervolcano erupted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

I don't know how well we'd survive such a bottleneck again; we're a seriously inbred bunch of primates at it stands...
 
SneekyNinja

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ttystikk said:
Smoke a joint and read up;

http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/richard-heinberg-problem-is-that-we.html?m=1

I'd like to think humanity has what it takes to overcome all these challenges, but my gut doesn't think so.

Maybe our best best is to put millions of glorified shipping containers into orbit and live in them. Silent Running, only on a grander scale.

If we seed interplanetary space, maybe some of us will survive the nasty fate we are sentencing our earthly progeny to, even as we speak.

Suddenly saving strains and growing inside aren't just hobbies anymore; they're survival skills.
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You deny obvious facts/realities and get your information from blogspot...

No wonder you're such a low intelligence poster.

#BernieLostby12%

Wanna talk about Justice Democrats being lead by a presenter from a Russian propaganda network and then registering for unlimited Corporate donations?

No, of course you don't.

If you can't even accept basic realities then why do you keep posting as if your opinion matters? You've literally no credibility.

You may aswell just register to help with Trump's re-election campaign.
 
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Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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I think that climate change will probably prove to be the end game for the human race, but
now whether it is caused man, or by an asteroid (we are do for one), that we will see.

But anyway, most people are too stupid and ignore the writing on the wall, so one way or the other
the human race is finite. It is written in the Bible, right?

"Most people are not party to the conversation, not aware that it is happening, and unaware even that such a conversation is warranted. Among those who are worried about the state of the world, most are content to pursue or support efforts to keep crises from occurring by working via political parties, religious organizations, or non-profit advocacy orgs on issues such as climate change, food security, and economic inequality. There is also a small but rapidly growing segment of society that feels disempowered as the era of economic growth wanes, and that views society’s power holders as evil and corrupt. These dispossessed—whether followers of ISIS or Infowars—would prefer to “shake things up,” even to the point of bringing society to destruction, rather than suffer the continuation of the status quo. Unfortunately, this last group may have the easiest path of all.

By comparison, the number of those involved in the conversation is exceedingly small, countable probably in the hundreds of thousands, certainly not millions. Can we succeed? It depends on how one defines “success”—as the ability to maintain, for a little longer, an inherently unsustainable global industrial system? Or as the practical reduction in likely suffering on the part of the survivors of the eventual crash? A related query one often hears after environmental lectures is, Are we doing enough? If “Enough” means “enough to avert a system crash,” then the answer is no: it’s unlikely that anyone can deliver that outcome now. The question should be, What can we do—not to save a way of life that is unsalvageable, but to make a difference to the people and other species in harm’s way?"

Anyway, this OP, is bringin me down, so it's definitely time for a joint
 
Gquebed

Gquebed

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ttystikk said:
Smoke a joint and read up;

http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/richard-heinberg-problem-is-that-we.html?m=1

I'd like to think humanity has what it takes to overcome all these challenges, but my gut doesn't think so.

Maybe our best best is to put millions of glorified shipping containers into orbit and live in them. Silent Running, only on a grander scale.

If we seed interplanetary space, maybe some of us will survive the nasty fate we are sentencing our earthly progeny to, even as we speak.

Suddenly saving strains and growing inside aren't just hobbies anymore; they're survival skills.
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I have been saying for a long time that makind is arrogant to believe that we are killing the planet with pollution or could kill it with all out nuclear war. It has survived far worse that humankind. We may be changing it, but... we cant kill it...

We are merely killing ourselves. And maybe that isnt a bad thing since we are the only species to be so incredibly stupid as to believe that we own the earth instead of the other way around....
 
Gquebed

Gquebed

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SneekyNinja said:
You deny obvious facts/realities and get your information from blogspot...

No wonder you're such a low intelligence poster.

#BernieLostby12%

Wanna talk about Justice Democrats being lead by a presenter from a Russian propaganda network and then registering for unlimited Corporate donations?

No, of course you don't.

If you can't even accept basic realities then why do you keep posting as if your opinion matters? You've literally no credibility.

You may aswell just register to help with Trump's re-election campaign.
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Wtf was that?
Is there any relevance to the OP?
Put the pipe down...for a few weeks and get some rest...
 
vostok

vostok

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Unclebaldrick said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
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an unknown agent causes the Moon to shatter into seven pieces. As the remnants of the Moon begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science popularizer "Doc" Dubois Harris calculates that the number of collisions will increase exponentially. A large number of moon fragments will begin entering Earth's atmosphere, forming a "white sky" and blanketing the earth within two years with what he calls a "Hard Rain" of bolides; this will cause the atmosphere to heat to incandescence and oceans to boil away, destroying the biosphere and rendering Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years. It is decided to evacuate as many people and resources as possible to a "Cloud Ark" in orbit, including a "swarm" of "arklet" habitats that will be able to avoid the debris from the moon—both to attempt to preserve the human race and to give the remaining doomed inhabitants of Earth something to hope for, to prevent civil disorder from breaking out on Earth before its surface is destroyed. Each nation on Earth is invited to choose by lot a small number of young people to become eligible to join the Cloud Ark.

I got this from a neighbor

gonna give it a go

cause I love you balders...

cheers
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Climbing CO2 levels will eventually become toxic. Infants will fail to thrive at 800ppm of CO2.

CO2 levels are rising exponentially. They've risen 100ppm in just the past 50 years and are in track to rise another 100ppm in much less time than that.

We may indeed poison ourselves with CO2 even before climate change wrecks our ability to feed and house us.

And y'all wonder why I'm working so hard to build highly productive grows in shipping container size boxes...

https://www.reddit.com/r/doomsdaycult/comments/68be18/the_longterm_effects_of_carbon_dioxide_on_human/
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Gquebed said:
I have been saying for a long time that makind is arrogant to believe that we are killing the planet with pollution or could kill it with all out nuclear war. It has survived far worse that humankind. We may be changing it, but... we cant kill it...

We are merely killing ourselves. And maybe that isnt a bad thing since we are the only species to be so incredibly stupid as to believe that we own the earth instead of the other way around....
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George Carlin beat you to it;
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Gquebed said:
Hmmmm....

Entirely possible that i got my notion from that. I remember seeing that clip years years ago...lol
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Whoever said it first, it's still apt.

So now what?

'Collapse', by Dr Jared Diamond

In it, he runs a list of failed civilisations from history, large ones and small.

The conclusion is inescapable; our well be no different. It's a matter of when and how- and what's left afterwards.

I'm no longer trying to help our civilisation live forever; I'm trying to give our progeny a fighting chance to survive the coming crash and have any future at all.
 
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