I have Gir singing in my head

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1758657]

context.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

My "Everything's just fine thanks" should be read within context -- we have for the entirety of human history been living within a human created mega extinction event created by our distant ancestors. (The hint is that there are few "large furries", that is big mammals not the internet meaning, on any continent except Africa). Within this context I don't think we actually have the capability to completely wipe out life. We certainly have the technology to keep ourselves fed should we so choose by artificial means even if there's ocean collapse and so on. I don't find most of the "doom" scenarios at all convincing. I mean the whole "what if there were no bees" sort of nonsense [I worked somewhere which hand pollenated fruit for the mass market in the 80s, I don't imagine the technology has been lost since].

So while we're undoubtedly wreaking severe damage on the ecosystem and we should do what we can to mitigate that and it has and will continue to cause many many deaths my guess is that we will continue to be progressively less doomed.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Life will be fine. Humans (and many other particular species) may not be, and our human societies as they are now will almost certainly not be, but living creatures will be about in one form or other til the sun finally explodes...

I'm also of the opinion that there is some sort of life elsewhere in the universe.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

This, basically. Life will be fine. People will not. Where Sarah and I differ is that I reckon we'll manage to burn out quite comfortably for the duration of our generation, at least, rather than really feeling it hard just yet.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yep, all of this.

[mb2u]

I checked "DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!" just because I wanted to imagine Gir saying "DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!"

[crm.livejournal.com]

yep, me too. I think we may be spoiling his stats because one of the options has more doom in it then the other one... not very objective.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

There'll be at least microbial life until we get toasted by the expanding sun. Is that A or B?

[usmu.livejournal.com]

It might take a while, but eventually the sun will go nova and devour the planet. So life's not going to survive, even it it's only because the planet won't. That's not taking in account any big extinction events taking place. One of which might well drop us below the threshold for sustainable life on the planet. In the mean time individual species are going the way of the dodo at an accelerating rate, but some life will remain. If that's your definition of fine, then everything's just fine.