(March 13, 2019 at 2:35 pm)Yonadav Wrote: What's the reason that humanity would not be able to sustain its current level of technology? I imagine that reason would have a lot to do with shaping things.
Greed. Pollution. Hubris.
Humans certainly have the capability to adapt. But at the same time we are also tribal and can be very greedy, and in that process, we can be self destructive without realizing it.
There are powers in the world, like Kim Jong Un, that would rather start WW3 than to value the long term survival of our entire species.
Trump talks and acts like he would rather start a civil war, than to accept his divisive rhetoric is toxic to national and global stability.
Neither of them represent our entire species collectively, but individually they do represent narcissism and ego and lust for power.
Don't confuse our species ability to potentially adapt, as meaning we will adapt.
Just like it is possible for an individual to stop smoking cigarettes doesn't mean they will.
We have had solar technology, for example, for almost a century. But greed has kept the planet on fossil fuels.
It isn't a matter of can we adapt, but will we adapt.
