To fear or not to fear?
David Wallace-Wells and Eric Holthaus discuss telling stories about the end of the world, and finding hope in the face of doomsday studies.
It has to come from different kinds of people living in different kinds of places with different kinds of perspectives and different storytelling tools, from wonky science writing, to memoir, to sci-fi, and poetry. It’s kind of like all hands on deck, all stories on deck.
I'd like to offer another perspective.
The HUMAN end of the world is most likely coming and probably unavoidable at this point.
I suspect the end of the Anthropocene will see an extinction event somewhere as high as the Cretaceous extinction event, but probably not as high as the Permian extinction.
While this will SUCK for most species alive on earth, for life in the general sense it will just be another day on the beach and a new order will arise.
Evolution has no mercy
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We might leave something behind.
The first library on another celestial body.
https://www.archmission.org/spaceil
(White paper)
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This is to my mind a correct assumption. The end of the Anthropocene will be brutal, slow, and very messy. But unavoidable.