For thousands of years, since Jesus was alive, himself and many before him prophesized the end of the world. They continue to warn others of their doomsday visions as they get older, and older, and eventually die as elderly men in their beds.
The apocalypse is an enduring fixation of the human mind. I don’t think any of us will live to see it. And if I’m wrong, well our problems are over anyway.
I’m more concerned about when socialism will be achieved.
I’d settled to a similar conclusion for a while, but I could not ignore how we seem to be approaching our planet’s thermodynamic limits. We have disrupted the natural flow and cycles of energy to the point of, I think, a global climate refugee crisis in my lifetime. Its arguably already begun.
We’ve “simply” burned too much, and too fast, low entropy fuel and our Sun-Earth system can only expel so much thermal energy, and increasingly less so as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate and ice caps melt. We’re pressure cooking ourselves.
For thousands of years, since Jesus was alive, himself and many before him prophesized the end of the world. They continue to warn others of their doomsday visions as they get older, and older, and eventually die as elderly men in their beds.
The apocalypse is an enduring fixation of the human mind. I don’t think any of us will live to see it. And if I’m wrong, well our problems are over anyway.
I’m more concerned about when socialism will be achieved.
Likelihood of “ww3” is very relevant to achieving socialism. And I didn’t mean that it would be apocalyptic or whatever.
If someone in the 1930s asked what the likelihood of ww2 was it would be a fair question.
I’d settled to a similar conclusion for a while, but I could not ignore how we seem to be approaching our planet’s thermodynamic limits. We have disrupted the natural flow and cycles of energy to the point of, I think, a global climate refugee crisis in my lifetime. Its arguably already begun.
We’ve “simply” burned too much, and too fast, low entropy fuel and our Sun-Earth system can only expel so much thermal energy, and increasingly less so as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate and ice caps melt. We’re pressure cooking ourselves.