XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 10/01/2026 23:50, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >      Don't worry about the planet.  With or without life on it Earth   
   > will take care of itself just as does Venus or Mercury.  The risk is   
   > to the last few hundred years of human progress(?). We might   
   > manage to revert to barbarism if the temperature does not go too   
   > high for our systems by which I mean the whole means by which   
   > your body maintains homeostasis which includes food systems,   
   > medical systems, transport systems.  I suspect without clear   
   > evidence that we may hit another bottleneck and suffer large   
   > losses of population and genetic diversity human and otherwise.   
   >   
   Oh it wont get that bad.   
      
   For real climate change you need a 1000 year volcanic eruption, or a a   
   small asteroid hitting.   
      
   This is just normal variation in an ice age interstadial.   
      
   Of course people are going to die in large numbers, with or without   
   climate change. We have build a technology based life support system   
   governed by people who think of technologists as beneath contempt.  Or   
   dangerous. And are busy convincing the people that this is so.   
      
   That is an unstable configuration.   
      
      
   >      bliss - always the cheery optimist...   
      
   Yes, you are. The truth is far far worse.   
      
   It wont be climate change that brings down the West, it will be   
   renewable energy. Or a pandemic that some political demagogue claims is   
   not real, so there is no need to get vaccinated...or simply invasion by   
   people who don't give a shit for western values and think being nice   
   means being weak., And turn out to be right.   
      
      
      
   --   
   "Nature does not give up the winter because people dislike the cold."   
      
   ― Confucius   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)