“Okay, we finished the future machine. Hey future-machine, what’s gonna happen?”
“About 3 billion people will die and one continent worth of land become uninhabitable. A version of your civilization will survive, but unrecognizable to the people of today. You will lose many things you take for granted.”
Ignoring the “low hanging fruit” equally sarcastic and unhelpful response that stops the conversation dead.
What this did was show change was possible - accepting a response of its not as bad as it could be flies in the face of human determination and morals. This is a step in the right direction, nothing more.
“Okay, we finished the future machine. Hey future-machine, what’s gonna happen?”
“About 3 billion people will die and one continent worth of land become uninhabitable. A version of your civilization will survive, but unrecognizable to the people of today. You will lose many things you take for granted.”
“… that’s after the 0.9 degrees?”
“If you are lucky, yes.”
“… what about before?”
“Do you really want to know?”
Ignoring the “low hanging fruit” equally sarcastic and unhelpful response that stops the conversation dead.
What this did was show change was possible - accepting a response of its not as bad as it could be flies in the face of human determination and morals. This is a step in the right direction, nothing more.