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Originally Posted by r6r6r
The human party will come to and end on Earth, question is, when and how much sufferring along the way?
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You could also name all of the pandemics like AIDS, bird flu or Zika virus & say that humans might perfect some sort of free energy source yet still end up succumbing to germs (much like the fall of the Martians in War of the Worlds).
There are things that we discover as we advance technologically that educate us & we collectively decide to take action. Vaccination programmes for example are one result.
Nukes are terrible but thanks to Einstein in part -
who was a pacifist - the A bomb was achieved. That was to counter the Nazis whom many believed would create the bomb 1st.
Just as criminals are less likely to break into a gun owners home - mutually assured destruction creates a deadlock - so far we have been ok.
Humans tinker - sometimes we create vaccines, sometimes nukes but there is always hope - always.
It isn't head in the sand, the world is complicated & dangerous. We could achieve utopia & then a meteor hits us ... all we can do is keep moving forward & try to learn from mistakes.
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