Posted by fluffy at 216.230.138.157 on May 27, 2003 at 16:38:45:
In Reply to: Sorry? posted by jkm822 on May 27, 2003 at 16:32:10:
~ i can't see any way of changing it either! Sad! But i'm going to have a damn good
time while I'm Here!
: will not endure. Humankind is simply not intelligent enough to not extinguish
itself.
: I didn't quite look closely at this when it was posted.
: We're not going to endure, but we can't extinguish ourselves?
: Is anyone else confused, here?
: I fully agree that we won't survive. We're consume far too much, without putting
anything back, for the planet to be able to support us forever. And while sci-fi would
have us believe in terraforming... well, I reserve judgement. Besides the fact that
between the skyrocketing population, the accompanying increase in disease (not
here in the US, no, 'cause we have drugs. But everywhere else. And the US will
proceed to be killed by things that we've antibacterialed into such strength that they
take us out in one swell foop), and the seemingly overwhelming desire to bomb the
fuck out of each other, there's just not much chance we're going to make it.
: As long as it doesn't happen till I'm gone, I don't care much.