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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
One of the single best posts ever submitted to this board.
Unfortunately, there is going to be a massive span of time between right now, and that day. And in the middle there will be much, much more war, full out class war, terrorism on every level, eco destruction, complete anarchy, the creation of ThunderDome, and death on a biblical scale.
And that's only if we survive it all.
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The best thing for this planet at this point would be a world wide untreatable plague. It would serve an amazing purpose. Evolution has effectively stopped at this point, as medicine has pretty much made it certain that the weak will survive and prosper. When the weak/ill or people who are inclined to be weak/ill have kids, the species is effectively weakened. One could argue that evolution is actually working its way backwards as a result. I worry that even if we don't blow each other up before we return to pre-oil ways of life, the species will be so weakened and sick that we won't stand a chance.
I think we are going to be screwed in either scenario. It's either nuclear war, and we all die, or a sick and weakened species, and we all die. People need to realize that not everyone gets to see 75 or 80 years old, and not all kids get to grow up. That is the way of life. Unfortinutely, our compassion and desire to keep everyone alive (out of greed of not wanting to lose someone or something), regardless of their condition, is responsible for our weakening population.
We doomed.