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All of the arguing about what candidate is better than another makes no difference long term. The only way for humanity to survive is to not continue to deplete the earth's resources faster than they can be regenerated. Good luck with that! It certainly isn't something Biden, Sanders, Trump, China is addressing.
Eventually the earth will have its way. It will kill most or all of us off. Maybe the sun will do us in with a Carrington Event .The last big one was in 1859 before the rise of modern electrical and electronic systems. Can you imagine the world with most electrical and electronic systems destroyed? Maybe a super virus will kill off most of the world's population. Who knows?
I read a book a long time ago. It was titled "The World Without Us" I think. It gave the scenario that all of humanity died in a single day. How long would the earth take to recover? The ending was somewhere between 1 and 10 million years where biodiversity had fully recovered. There are loads of unknowns though. No one can predict long term future like that. It gave me comfort, all the same.
This post is partly inspired by the idea of vote blue no matter who. Sure it is good to stop the trainwreck that is the orange one and the republican party. It can help for a short time to preserve the status quo or even get slightly better with Biden or Sanders in office.
To change the long term future will take very radical change though, which no one is even talking about. I'm resigned to the fact that humanity will mostly or completely die out. I know with my health conditions I will be lucky to last another 20 years, maybe much less. A severe stock market crash or cutbacks in medical benefits could hurt or kill me.
C'est La Vie
La Vie
Eventually the earth will have its way. It will kill most or all of us off. Maybe the sun will do us in with a Carrington Event .The last big one was in 1859 before the rise of modern electrical and electronic systems. Can you imagine the world with most electrical and electronic systems destroyed? Maybe a super virus will kill off most of the world's population. Who knows?
I read a book a long time ago. It was titled "The World Without Us" I think. It gave the scenario that all of humanity died in a single day. How long would the earth take to recover? The ending was somewhere between 1 and 10 million years where biodiversity had fully recovered. There are loads of unknowns though. No one can predict long term future like that. It gave me comfort, all the same.
This post is partly inspired by the idea of vote blue no matter who. Sure it is good to stop the trainwreck that is the orange one and the republican party. It can help for a short time to preserve the status quo or even get slightly better with Biden or Sanders in office.
To change the long term future will take very radical change though, which no one is even talking about. I'm resigned to the fact that humanity will mostly or completely die out. I know with my health conditions I will be lucky to last another 20 years, maybe much less. A severe stock market crash or cutbacks in medical benefits could hurt or kill me.
C'est La Vie
La Vie