Just a reminder that it’s still February, people.

  • Flying Squid
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    310 months ago

    That is not something you can predict with any certainty. That may happen and it may not. We can’t know at this point. But there will definitely be a price paid for our continued fossil fuel use.

      • Flying Squid
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        110 months ago

        I do not pretend to know the future.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          I’m not asking you be clairvoyant. I’m asking you to make an educated guess on the outcome of humanity based on what you know about humanity.

          You can refuse, but just say you’re refusing.

          • Flying Squid
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            210 months ago

            What I know about humanity is that we spent the vast amount of our history as small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers, so any prediction you make is based on a very tiny fraction of our history.

              • Flying Squid
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                210 months ago

                The answer to the question is that civilization is an unnatural state for humanity to be in, so it is too unpredictable at present. And since there has never been a global civilization collapse, in part because there has never been a global threat like this and in part because the world has never been globalized like this, we are in completely unknown territory.

                • andyburke
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                  310 months ago

                  You are the correct one here, I think tsonfeir is maybe trying to riddle you or something: the truth is at some point the sun will extend out beyond Earth and any civilization left here will die out, human or otherwise?

                  Not sure why that is that interesting to them or why they are demanding you say it.