I need to vent!

[GoktimusPrime]

Someone tried to steal flowers from the floral tribute shrine on Bourke St.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/3424...emorial/#page1

[kup]

Someone tried to steal flowers from the floral tribute shrine on Bourke St.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/3424...emorial/#page1

We have to many worthless humans. The species will not be sustainable in a generation or two.

[1AZRAEL1]

And yet people look at me weird when I say we need an epic flood of biblical proportions...

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And yet people look at me weird when I say we need an epic flood of biblical proportions...

There is a theory that the great flood was actually real. It is frequently referred to in ancient writings and as it is referred to in the epic of Gilgamesh which is basically an older pre-biblical version of Noah's ark (just better written and more epic) with the flood and all.

I have always said that the Earth is never truly in danger of us but rather we are in danger of it. At some point the Earth will just throw a huge seismic event and wipe out much of the population completely destroying civilisation as we know it. Yes, humans will survive but they will be too few and no where near as skilled or knowledgeable enough to maintain and sustain technology, agriculture and society will just go back to tribes. Then even more humans will just die from warfare and disease (our natural population control) - This would pretty much reset Humanity back to the stone age.

[Sinnertwin]

I've been stockpiling bottle caps for years. I'm not worried about natural or nuclear disasters.

[1AZRAEL1]

I'm not worried either. If it happens it happens.

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I've been stockpiling bottle caps for years. I'm not worried about natural or nuclear disasters.

lol I already have a stash myself. Can't wait for some good o Nuka Kola!

I'm not worried either. If it happens it happens.

I am in a similar camp but if it does happen within my lifetime, I just hope that it isn't when I am too old to survive the wasteland.

[Raider]

I have always said that the Earth is never truly in danger of us but rather we are in danger of it. At some point the Earth will just throw a huge seismic event and wipe out much of the population completely destroying civilisation as we know it.

Has there ever been a known instance in the history of the Earth where it has been capable of doing this? I thought the only way that an ELE is likely to happen is either man made (ie nuclear war), meteor or severe climate change.

My money is on self annihilation before we even get a chance to destroy the climate to the point of not being able to sustain human life.

[Sinnertwin]

Has there ever been a known instance in the history of the Earth where it has been capable of doing this? I thought the only way that an ELE is likely to happen is either man made (ie nuclear war), meteor or severe climate change.

My money is on self annihilation before we even get a chance to destroy the climate to the point of not being able to sustain human life.

A few years ago, apparently.
An interesting quick read.

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Has there ever been a known instance in the history of the Earth where it has been capable of doing this? I thought the only way that an ELE is likely to happen is either man made (ie nuclear war), meteor or severe climate change.

My money is on self annihilation before we even get a chance to destroy the climate to the point of not being able to sustain human life.

Several times, one actually during our own existence. Check Sinnertwin's link for just a few instances.

The reality is that when we damage the environment, we are only hurting ourselves, not the earth. The earth would recover in just a couple of million years that to it, is nothing but to us is the existence of our entire species. There is nothing we can do to the earth that it can't recover from relatively quickly even if we nuke the entire earth. We would only kill ourselves and the present ecosystems that help maintain us. The Earth would then recover by creating a brand new one.

Humanity is both arrogant and stupid and as we have experienced with people, that is the worse combination.