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Well that’s a gross exaggeration and simplification of my position, but I do think there’s a good chance we’re going to go extinct, or at least plummet back into the dark ages, within the next century or two, if we don’t clean up our act, which I doubt most of us will unfortunately, but still I’m putting it out there.
And the scientific community is in agreement with me, at least on this, I’m certainly not in agreement with them on everything.
Well it wouldn’t be the first time civilization collapsed, see the Mayans, see Rome, see the lesser known Greek dark ages AKA the bronze age collapse.
Even if we’re ultimately ‘progressing’, which I doubt, it’s at the very, very least going to be a bumpy road up, history has clearly indicated that much, but we can probably help mitigate those bumps, by slowing dowm, treading carefully, which we have obviously completely and utterly failed to do, thus far.
From climate change, to a coronal mass ejection, from a super virus, to global nuclear and chemical warfare, from the eradication of forests/wildlife, renewable and non-renewable resources, to our arguably declining physical and mental health, many, many threats loom on the horizon, and these threats are not far fetched, not at all, we came that close: ___ to all out nuclear warfare with Russia during the cold war, really it’s practically a miracle it didn’t happen.
The collapse of this civilization is practically inevitable, every civilization that has ever existed has collapsed or at least significantly declined at some point, often after over-expanding economically, militarily.
What’s far fetched is the notion that we’re it, we’ve arrived at the end of history, that we can now disregard all the lessons of the past, significant military, environmental and economic conflicts and challenges are now behind us, each generation will enjoy a higher quality of life and standard of living than the previous, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, that is the real fantasy so many our indulging in, wholehearted and mindedly giving themselves over to.
I’m not saying modernity is all bad, what it is, is a double edged sword, it’s something we have to wield with the utmost, the utmost caution, care and restraint, or we will surely perish.