Greetings kind readers. Thanks for being here. Yesterday I laid out the time line for human history from now until the birth of Melanie Gavaskar, known to the Universe as Max.
I make a series of assumptions to lead me from now to then. I fear the we humans will not be able to stop ourselves before we wreck the environment. No, we aren’t going to destroy the world, but if we don’t do something very soon we are going to make things very hard on ourselves.
No matter how bad things get we will recover eventually. I am an optimist. I see human history as one long, slow trudge towards civilization.
Full disclosure . . . I don’t have kids. So, I don’t worry too much about what will happen to the environment for my benefit. My wife and I will see things deteriorate but I don’t see complete eco systems failing in the near future. I do expect to see some interesting times. I hope society is able to care for me when I can no longer care for myself. (will I become soylent green?)
Those of you who do have kids should be very concerned and working very hard to ensure that they and their society doesn’t have to spend all its energies learning how to adapt to the new environment. American conservatives often like to moan that we will be leaving the coming generations too much debt. I say the economic debt we might leave is a drop in the bucket compared the problems we are setting up for them environmentally. (OK back off the soap box)
Earth Year 2013
Never mix red wine with Oodo.
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