only gets one shot at getting it right on
a planet like the Earth.
This is about resource depletion, my dullards.
It has often been said that, if the human species
fails to make a go of it here on Earth, some other
species will take over the running. In the sense
of developing high intelligence this is not
correct.
Humans have, or soon will have, exhausted the
necessary physical prerequisites so far as this
planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone,
high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however
competent can make the long climb from primitive
conditions to high-level technology. This is a
one-shot affair.
If humans fail, this planetary system fails so far
as intelligence is concerned. The same will be
true of other planetary systems. On each of them
there will be one chance, and one chance only.
.oOo.
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Comments (5)
Cynical observer
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Intelligence? Has it already arrived? Must have missed noticing it. It must have been a very short visit indeed. |
Ludovico
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More heat, less water, less food, less oil, more people... Hmm, no light at the end of this tunnel, just a long, slow slide to catastrophe for a species too greedy to think beyond today |
Graeme
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You greeny nutcases would have us all living in caves and chewing grass. You forget that it is capitalism's ingenuity that has created the wealth we have now and it will be capitalism that will handle any problem that 'mother nature' can throw at us. But if you pot smoking hippies don't agree, fine. Just piss off back to your caves and stay there. Let the rest of us get on with the business of making wealth for ourselves and our children. Graeme, Caulfield |
Urban Warrior
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I want to save the world but I need my computer and car and the fridge, the occasional trip on a jumbo jet, Hollywood movies and Safeway products. Will that be OK? |
Cynical observer
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I just love it when self-styled "capitalists" brag about the wealth they have "created" out of thin air. Nice conceit, but it will not save these retards from their own incompetence and idiocy. |
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