Norway Begins Four Year Test Of Thorium Nuclear Reactor

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12. I don't understand the purpose of deeper thought if it's merely an expression of hopelessness.

This post represents a different perspective. In it you acknowledge the possibility of survivors, of people alive beyond our "execution date". That though the world will be profoundly different 100 years from now, it will likely be surviveable for some. How? What can we do now to prolong that date, even by a few decades?

When you talk about permaculture or faster computers, I want to know why you find these idea attractive. But unless you're religious there's not much choice to believe that "man is the measure of all things, the arbiter of all value, and that everything we do should be judged only in relation to its impact on human beings". When you make a judgement about the future of genetic diversity, you really don't care about genetic diversity at all - you care about how the destruction of GD makes you feel. But at least it represents a concern which isn't entirely selfish. When you talk of a post-apocalyptic generation which can work in cooperation, you not only acknowledge there might be a post-apocalyptic generation, but that it might aspire to a loftier goal than survival. That kind of thinking is inspirational and courageous.

Despair, hopelessness, acceptance, endpoints, blah. It's laziness under pseudo-intellectual cover.