I mean, some things are nice, other things are a mixed bag, and the cost might be literally everything.
I guess I’m on the fence overall. Humans sticking with nomadic hunter/gatherer lifestyles would have been more sustainable, but from my current perspective it wouldn’t have been an enjoyable life. On the other hand, if we never got here we wouldn’t have known how much easier life could have been for some of us.
And really the decline will only suck for those of us that live through it or die during it. If humanity survives it, then people born into that life will only know what was from what they’ll be told and eventually they might even get to a point where many don’t believe what we have right now could have all existed.
And it’s certainly interesting living in this time where the future could either be a high tech dystopia (let’s face it, even if there’s revolutions, it’ll just be a game of musical chairs for who has the power and wealth, though overall inequality might fall for a bit) where humanity is capable of things we can only imagine right now or a human-free wasteland that might eventually recover into a world that would be as alien to us as the Cretaceous or an infinite number of scenarios in between.
I mean, some things are nice, other things are a mixed bag, and the cost might be literally everything.
I guess I’m on the fence overall. Humans sticking with nomadic hunter/gatherer lifestyles would have been more sustainable, but from my current perspective it wouldn’t have been an enjoyable life. On the other hand, if we never got here we wouldn’t have known how much easier life could have been for some of us.
And really the decline will only suck for those of us that live through it or die during it. If humanity survives it, then people born into that life will only know what was from what they’ll be told and eventually they might even get to a point where many don’t believe what we have right now could have all existed.
And it’s certainly interesting living in this time where the future could either be a high tech dystopia (let’s face it, even if there’s revolutions, it’ll just be a game of musical chairs for who has the power and wealth, though overall inequality might fall for a bit) where humanity is capable of things we can only imagine right now or a human-free wasteland that might eventually recover into a world that would be as alien to us as the Cretaceous or an infinite number of scenarios in between.