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In reply to the discussion: Thoughts on the Evolution of Our Species. [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)86. I believe civilization as we run it now is unsustainable.
We cannot keep spewing greenhouse gases into the air into perpetuity. We must change this.
We cannot keep destroying forests forever. Eventually they will run out. Rapa Nui learned this the hard way.
We cannot keep pumping our farmland full of poison spray.
Civilization has to change and abandon these MAJOR pillars of wastefulness and pollution that currently sustain it, or there will be a total collapse.
That is, unless you believe in magic, and the inexhaustible nature of natural resources.
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"Think of collapse as a new beginning." LORDY, I got flamed for saying the same thing.
Zalatix
May 2012
#3
Here's one for you. Is the universe really expanding, or is everything in it just shrinking?
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#72
Nuclear war could count for your 1st point; but that wasn't in the OP
muriel_volestrangler
May 2012
#38
You're the one nitpicking over the use of a noun versus a verb, or synonyms
muriel_volestrangler
May 2012
#50
As long as we set the criteria for judgment, you're right. OTOH, I think Douglas Adams
Egalitarian Thug
May 2012
#46
Okay, I'm done busting a gut here. In all seriousness, here is why you are so wrong.
Zalatix
May 2012
#49
what you fail to understand is, it's not a question of a train wreck. The train IS the wreck.
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#77
I will never understand the need people feel to insist that whatever their situation is
4th law of robotics
May 2012
#37
When people talk about saving the earth, they're really talking about saving us.
Egalitarian Thug
May 2012
#55
Lots more species have come and gone before humans appeared in the very recent past.
FarCenter
May 2012
#61