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

On Apr 25, 9:23 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

While that seems true now...


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.

....the external circumstances/environment changes radically over
longer periods, wiping out gaggles of species or curtailing their
population/growth. In the case of homo sapiens, a good set of
volcanic eruptions (changing weather to an extreme and thence food
production worldwide), a huge asteroid hit (ditto), a virus etc., can
all play havoc with our future. In geologic time, we are but nats on
a mouse's ass and "Earth" could not care less whether we live or die
en masse.
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