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Old 08-20-2019, 05:51 PM   #6569 (permalink)
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"As I see things, there are three broad possible futures that lie ahead:
•This civilisation could collapse utterly and terminally, as a result of climatic instability (leading for instance to catastrophic food shortages as a probable mechanism of collapse), or possibly sooner than that, through nuclear war, pandemic, or financial collapse leading to mass civil breakdown. Any of these are likely to be precipitated in part by ecological/climate instability, as Darfur and Syria were. Or

•This civilisation (we) will manage to seed a future successor-civilisation(s), as this one collapses.Or

•This civilisation will somehow manage to transform itself deliberately, radically and rapidly, in an unprecedented manner, in time to avert collapse.

The third option, at which XR aims, is by far the least likely, though the most desirable, simply because either of the other options will involve vast suffering and death on an unprecedented scale."
Scans better with the bullets, but it still seems simplistic. Try a Venn diagram — #2 and #3 have overlap.

The hippys were right five decades ago. There is still a force warping mass-consciousness away from [so-called] anti-materialism. The intention behind people's everyday actions is the crux of the problem.
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