tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post4083211190867839474..comments2024-03-27T16:08:30.313-05:00Comments on The Great Change: Black Hawk's 11 Percent SolutionAlbert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-59395132794500524962019-03-24T16:15:25.980-05:002019-03-24T16:15:25.980-05:00The alternative is near term human extinction.
I ...<i>The alternative is near term human extinction.</i><br /><br />I disagree. The only human activity that could cause near term human extinction is a nuclear winter. Even a hothouse earth scenario wouldn't come into full equilibrium for millennia and it is not certain that humans would become extinct even then. I do agree that living as the Sauk lived would be far more preferable than continuing with BAU until hothouse earth is inevitable. We should do everything we can to quickly enable as many as possible to live like the Sauk, but we won't.<br /><br />What is inevitable is that billions of people are going to die prematurely in the next few decades due to resource depletion and the conflict over access to the remainder of those resources. It would be better that this mass death happen soon enough that the hothouse earth path is avoided. I keep hoping that economic collapse will do the job. If not, we get mass death plus a hothouse earth. If resource conflict leads to nuclear war, we get human extinction and a saved climate.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251330546889158364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-81601580649343791332019-03-24T13:53:25.206-05:002019-03-24T13:53:25.206-05:00Your plane analogy is similar to "Experiment ...Your plane analogy is similar to <a href="https://stopfossilfuels.org/gentler-transition/experiment-in-madness/" rel="nofollow">"Experiment in Madness"</a>, with the pilot and almost all the passengers hellbent on driving the plane as high as possible, as fast as possible before the inevitable nosedive. We desperately need that glide path, but it doesn't look like our society will voluntarily embrace it. :/Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790917341588271564noreply@blogger.com