We failed
- Started 11 years ago
- Last post 9 years ago
- 96 Responses
- benfal99
Some of you thinks iam super negative, well, seems like the NASA is negative too! They just backed a study that says Humanz are fucked.
Good luck to us all.
'NASA-Backed Study Says Humanity Is Pretty Much Screwed'
http://gizmodo.com/nasa-backed-s…
- monospaced0
Paper is 1 1/2 years old and comes out of a University, not NASA.
- benfal990
@monospaced
look at the article from the Guardian, dated march 14th 2014:
http://www.theguardian.com/envir…- the actual paper is older, and makes no mention of NASA whatsoever. but okaymonospaced
- monospaced0
"However, the scientists point out that the worst-case scenarios are by no means inevitable, and suggest that appropriate policy and structural changes could avoid collapse, if not pave the way toward a more stable civilisation."
Because "fail" always includes a failsafe.
- utopian0
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse.
http://www.theguardian.com/envir…
fuck you humans!
- detritus1
The obvious thing left out of statements like "All historical empires have collapsed under their own weight.." is the fact that humanity blundered on regardless, unless I'm a starving Mesopotamian caught up in some weord hallucination, of course.
The fall of Rome didn't mean the sudden death of however million Romans that existed back then. The Mesopotamian empires transmogrified into other entities, people moved, some people died. All the rest survived and perpetuated their lineages.
Evolution requires failure, otherwise we'd remain mired in ignorant stasis.
Knowing everything you know - do you even want the status quo to live on forever? Of course not.
We're smart creatures, some of us'll get though and do even greater things in future.
Just make sure you're one of them, so stop whinging and go do something.
- <Continuity
- +1000riskunlogic
- things change.CyBrainX
- Yup, that's the evolution bit, otherwise - what'd be the point?detritus
- looked up whinging********
- benfal990
The fall of Humanity will not take place in 6 months. This is gonna be a painful, agonizing 100-500 years of torture slowly grading in a downward spiral. We're already in the spiral.
- so... NOT the day after tomorrow?monospaced
- nopebenfal99
- :Dbenfal99
- *unpacks survival kit. Labels as "open in 2515"ETM
- noel0
It's not my fault!
- ukit20
Have you ever seen images of the "future" from just 50 or 100 years ago? No one can project 100-500 years out.
That doesn't mean it won't be bad, but any study should be taken with a grain of salt.
- Continuity0
'The fall of Humanity will not take place in 6 months. This is gonna be a painful, agonizing 100-500 years of torture slowly grading in a downward spiral. We're already in the spiral.'
If so, then big fucking deal. Good.
- GeorgesII0
"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again."
have fun continuing to discuss it, I'll keep on building my ark...
- drgs0
the richest countries will be ok
- this I'll disagree, cut the electricity in berlin, milan, paris or newyork for a week, then come back to meGeorgesII
- money will not always be the key. the Earth and mother Nature are stronger than all the money in the World.benfal99
- < correctMaaku
- its not like all resources will vanish, it will happen gradually with increasing demanddrgs
- yeah but how many people do you know that can fix a motor, build a wifi network, even put some ram in a comp without google..GeorgesII
- google, the people in developed countries will feel it a lot worst than those who already live itGeorgesII
- Lol g3. You wrong bro. The people you are describing are city folks. All of rural America would be just fine for the most part wih no power for a bit********
- IRNlun60
"appropriate policy and structural changes could avoid collapse, if not pave the way toward a more stable civilisation."
Yeah, we're fucked.
- benfal990
""The two key solutions are to reduce economic inequality so as to ensure fairer distribution of resources, and to dramatically reduce resource consumption by relying on less intensive renewable resources and reducing population growth.""
So basically, yes, we're very screwed.
- ukit20
It's happening today in places like India. Some areas are thriving, other places you have giant slums populated by millions of people who lack basic necessities.
Now imagine we start running out of water or energy. If there is some kind of major ecological disaster, the losses probably won't be evenly distributed. Some societies will be relatively OK, others will be screwed.
- benfal990
yep, water could be a major problem for many people one day
- thank goodness there are oceans and lakes of itmonospaced
- you know we can't drink water from oceans, right? right?benfal99
- you can with treatmentmonospaced
- you might not know it, but that's the water you drink eventually, it comes from the ocean at some pointmonospaced
- Almost everyone who has looked at the issue predicts there will be a water shortageukit2
- It's not enough just to say, we have some lakes and oceans out thereukit2
- How much can be converted effectively? Transported? etcukit2
- i think its not an easy process, no? and just imagine the price of water with that method.benfal99
- I know what you're saying. But I think that if it gets dire, people will find a way. It's all about distillation.monospaced
- evaporate and distill, like how oceans > rain > rivers > drinkable watermonospaced
- live by a mountain, that rocks are supposed to make the water drinkable no? or did i head that wrongsem
- wow, i typed that all kinda retarded eh...more water for my brain needed.sem
- mountains are known for "filtering" watermonospaced
- THERES MACHINES FOR THIS. NP.BrokenHD
- sarahfailin1
QBN: For a better tomorrow.
