Re: Hawkins suggests human race to continue for another million years

J.A. Legris wrote:

Sure, global warming. But also overpopulation, toxic chemicals,
nuclear proliferation, civil unrest, megalomaniacs, ... you know, the
usual suspects. We've failed to mitigate any of them individually and
now we appear to be headed into a perfect storm - a terrestrial
alignment that only an extremophile could appreciate.

As birth chambers go, the earth looks pretty sweet to me.

It is huge, has enormous resource reserves, and a long
expected lifespan - almost everything is about as good
as could reasonably be expected. If (heaven forbid!)
we /do/ manage to screw up somehow during embryonic
development, it won't be due to adverse external circumstances.
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