‘High likelihood of human civilisation coming to end’ by 2050

I notice they are saying "The end of human civilisation" and not human existence. I hope this doesn't mean the mags will survive.

Yankee Mackem said:
Well the electricity, and the internet will fail long before the end leaving scattered patches of enlightened internet users who will gradually decrease in numbers as we enter an apocalyptic cannibalistic phase before all trace of the internet suddenly vanishes. Living in caves, surrounded by our own faces, no running water etc. Very much what the people of shields experience today.

Having said that it will probably be DM who, having run out of posts to comment on, will probably end up trolling himself. "Imagine believing this is the end :lol:"
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Thats sounds bad to me.
 
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It would be great to know the day you were going to die. Nobody would have any worries hardly. No need to plan for life insurance funeral costs either so they can fuck off with that guilt trip.
 
ivanthereasonable said:
I notice they are saying "The end of human civilisation" and not human existence. I hope this doesn't mean the mags will survive.



Thats sounds bad to me.
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Radioactive fallout from the war on plastic mate. Get used to it.

Faeces obvs (autocorrect).

OOOSH YEAH said:
It would be great to know the day you were going to die. Nobody would have any worries hardly. No need to plan for life insurance funeral costs either so they can fuck off with that guilt trip.
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Unless everyone's time is the same in which case getting to the bar would be a pain.
 
Yankee Mackem said:
Radioactive fallout from the war on plastic mate. Get used to it.

Faeces obvs (autocorrect).



Unless everyone's time is the same in which case getting to the bar would be a pain.
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Would be chaos really. Like nobody would work the bar. Everyone would down toools straight away with life. There’s no future so what’s the point in working, having a family, being wealthy, being religious, building a home etc. Nobody would organise travel etc so we’d be pretty much stuck on this island.
 
Yankee Mackem said:
Well the electricity, and the internet will fail long before the end leaving scattered patches of enlightened internet users who will gradually decrease in numbers as we enter an apocalyptic cannibalistic phase before all trace of the internet suddenly vanishes. Living in caves, surrounded by our own faces, no running water etc. Very much what the people of shields experience today.

Having said that it will probably be DM who, having run out of posts to comment on, will probably end up trolling himself. "Imagine believing this is the end :lol:"
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:lol:

D:cool::cool:msday
 
Yankee Mackem said:
Well the electricity, and the internet will fail long before the end leaving scattered patches of enlightened internet users who will gradually decrease in numbers as we enter an apocalyptic cannibalistic phase before all trace of the internet suddenly vanishes. Living in caves, surrounded by our own faces, no running water etc. Very much what the people of shields experience today.

Having said that it will probably be DM who, having run out of posts to comment on, will probably end up trolling himself. "Imagine believing this is the end :lol:"
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So we'll still be spending most of our time taking selfies, then?

"And here we are just before we ate uncle Ernie's left leg".
 
After the drought of 1976 in this country we started to construct more reservoirs. However, as that threat appeared to disappear we began selling them off for building land. At least we own all our rivers in this country but we are always one dry winter away from a drought. We need to start constructing reservoirs again to ensure we collect enough winter rainfall to last for more than one summer.

Instead we have invested in HSE2 which actually runs over land in several places that could become flooded due to rising sea levels. How long the Thames flood barrier will remain effective is also debatable.

In Europe the problem is that the Danube runs through ten countries so conflicts over water seem inevitable especially if the Alps loose their glaciers. In India the Himalayas supply a huge population with fresh water. It seems inevitable that there is going to be mass migration on a scale we have never seen before and our human systems will be unable to cope.
 
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Climate change and its consequences can be dealt with but require a huge, coordinated worldwide effort.

The citizens of every country must be made to understand some sacrifice is required. The leadership of every country needs to understand they might not be able to do whatever they want to win votes

A centralised body WITH JURISDICTION would be needed that could enforce rules and spending.

So in short its just not going to happen.

Our people voted to leave an entity which thanks to banning lightbulbs and hoovers and 1000 other measures helped bring our own carbon emissions to lower than any time since the industrial revolution for no reason other than not wanting those rules and not wanting to give someone the ability to enforce them as well as some other political butt-fuckery. The US left the paris agreements because the president is best mates with some oil executives and some Russian oligarchs who make all their cash from fossil fuels. China is the worst offender, yes primarily due some some political butt-fuckery by the west in the past, but had taken steps to level off then start reducing fossil fuel emissions. They were working but a lot of it was backed by the Paris agreement and the 2014 climate partnership agreement with the US Xi and Obama signed which has gone in the shredder while the US undoes anything with the name Obama on it and starts a f***ing global trade war.

So basically we have the technology and capability to survive but are generally speaking a bunch of tribal, xenophobic, intolerant, intransigent, isolationist, jingoistic and generally dislikable twats and its going to kill us. Bummer.
 
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Because it has taken us so long to act the permafrost is already starting to defreeze releasing methane which is ten times more powerful that CO2. Huge areas of Siberia are covered in permafrost and once this positive feedback kicks in there will be nothing we can do to slow it down.

In fact there are millions of tons of methane frozen on the sea floor and indications that it is already warming and starting to rise to the surface around Japan.

We've known about this for 50 years and you have to wonder why we have done so little although the power of oil companies is first on the list for suppressing the reality.
 
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