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AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
5. It's never totally hopeless........
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 05:02 PM
Jul 2012

This is a decent piece, to be honest, but parts of it come off as a little too pessimistic.

Are we in danger? Yes, undoubtedly so. Could global civilization potentially go thru some shrinkage? Yes. Could hundreds of millions of people, especially in South America, Africa, and Asia, face starvation(or even more of it if it's already an issue)? Yes.
Does something need to be done? Yes, undoubtedly.

But is humanity going to become extinct, as some have claimed? Absolutely not. Is Earth going to turn into Venus? Of course not.
Is Nature powerless? Absolutely not.

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