No, people have been saying the end is coming soon for thousands of years. It’s also fun to research the oldest historical accounts complaining about “kids these days”.
This perspective that the end actually is soon requires some heavy cherry picking, where you ignore the evidence that it might not be. This is related to the perspective I was initially describing. People want to see something cool, maybe the end of the world even.
They’re probably not going to though, they’ll probably die of old age in a world that somewhat resembles this one.
Let me first clarify that I do believe climate change is real and something that we need urgent action on.
However in my 50+ years on this planet there has always been something to keep the people in fear and usually with cataclysmic consequences. In my lifetime the world or humanity should have ended already due to nuclear war, nuclear energy, peak oil, famine, over population, super weather (floods/hurricanes), acid rain, ozone layer depletion, y2k, ocean death, ice age (predicted in the 70’s), Yellowstone park eruptions, asteroid impacts, etc
The problem is when you have lived your entire life hearing that the end of humanity is near, you become desensitised to it and so when we do face a global catastrophe we are so apathetic.
What?
You think no human civilization has ended?
Before it was on a local scale and humanity just moved around or survived elsewhere.
Humanity might survive climate change or nuclear war, but this global civilization would not unless we prevent it
No, people have been saying the end is coming soon for thousands of years. It’s also fun to research the oldest historical accounts complaining about “kids these days”.
This perspective that the end actually is soon requires some heavy cherry picking, where you ignore the evidence that it might not be. This is related to the perspective I was initially describing. People want to see something cool, maybe the end of the world even.
They’re probably not going to though, they’ll probably die of old age in a world that somewhat resembles this one.
Let me first clarify that I do believe climate change is real and something that we need urgent action on.
However in my 50+ years on this planet there has always been something to keep the people in fear and usually with cataclysmic consequences. In my lifetime the world or humanity should have ended already due to nuclear war, nuclear energy, peak oil, famine, over population, super weather (floods/hurricanes), acid rain, ozone layer depletion, y2k, ocean death, ice age (predicted in the 70’s), Yellowstone park eruptions, asteroid impacts, etc
The problem is when you have lived your entire life hearing that the end of humanity is near, you become desensitised to it and so when we do face a global catastrophe we are so apathetic.
Found this article interesting on the subject:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
Very good point, thank you for the contribution. It does create a certain … complacency.