(July 10, 2015 at 8:48 am)Rhythm Wrote: Climate change- Take a look at the impressive infrastructure in ag and cities, and how we've moved both over great distances and time, many times.
Humans haven't been around all that long. Have we seen anything on the scale of the last ice age? We survived through that but we were effectively cave men at that time. In fact it's probably fairer to say the human species back then was an entirely different one to what we are now. I don't think there's any comparison between surviving a global climate event like that and the occasional natural disaster. I think you're underestimating how hostile this earth can be, and how disastrous a global climate change might be. It's really quite impossible to say whether we'd survive anything of that scale and still have our technology, our cities and our agriculture, because we've never really faced anything on that scale.
Quote:War- It would have to be a bigger war than anything we've been in before.
Ofcourse, but that's not any indication that it can't happen. Like I said, it was only 70 years ago that we saw the biggest war of our species. What makes you think wars are going to get any smaller? As technology grows, so does the destruction that can be sown with it.
Quote:Viral outbreak- Probably the most worrying of things I don't worry about. I don't worry so much about viruses that -we- get though, it would be more troubling if our livestock or crops were decimated. Rust, blight, and rootworms yall...scary shit.
Two words, spanish flu.
Quote:Economic collapse- If the whole world collapsed together, there would be no change in the relative value or worth of any of us. If the whole world didn;t collapse together....then we're just in the same situation we're in today, and the world hasn't ended on that count.
Of everything, economic collapse wouldn't bring about a doomsday. The economy is of our making and our control anyway for the most part.
