The climate crisis has a good chance of completing the job. And then there’s a lot of not-quite-worst-case scenarios where a tiny number of humans are able to survive for the tens of thousands of years it’ll take for the earth to repair itself. Everything we know about humanity will be lost and replaced by an entirely different culture.
The climate crisis has a good chance of completing the job. And then there’s a lot of not-quite-worst-case scenarios where a tiny number of humans are able to survive for the tens of thousands of years it’ll take for the earth to repair itself. Everything we know about humanity will be lost and replaced by an entirely different culture.
The tabula is never quite rasa in practise. Besides, it’s not like humans are all angels deep down.
I’m not trying to be hopeless here, I think it’s more hopeless to imagine some big death tantrum will fix us.