Are You Optimistic/Pessimistic About the Future...


Turner the Cat

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Of the world, human race?

Quite a few challenges...

Global warming and sea levels rising
A growing population placing ever increasing pressure on natural resources that are being destroyed at alarming rates
Species going extinct at alarming rates
the capacity to wipe ourselves out
Fears around AI

To counter that...
We're aware of the challenges is a good start
Technology and science could help bring solutions
We're showing more and more interest in the wellbeing of the natural world
Global birth rates are declining
We're becoming more compassionate as a species

So you feeling optimistic or pessimistic?

I think it could go either way but personally I'm optimistic about the future.
 
At some point in the future the Sun, on its way to death, will grow bigger and bigger. Its debated whether or not it will actually engulf the Earth but it will certainly scorch the Earth, where everything is killed and the planet is left like a shrivelled crisp.
 
At some point in the future the Sun, on its way to death, will grow bigger and bigger. Its debated whether or not it will actually engulf the Earth but it will certainly scorch the Earth, where everything is killed and the planet is left like a shrivelled crisp.
True. Still got another 7 odd billion years yet though.
 
Of the world, human race?

Quite a few challenges...

Global warming and sea levels rising
A growing population placing ever increasing pressure on natural resources that are being destroyed at alarming rates
Species going extinct at alarming rates
the capacity to wipe ourselves out
Fears around AI

To counter that...
We're aware of the challenges is a good start
Technology and science could help bring solutions
We're showing more and more interest in the wellbeing of the natural world
Global birth rates are declining
We're becoming more compassionate as a species

So you feeling optimistic or pessimistic?

I think it could go either way but personally I'm optimistic about the future.
Are we becoming more compassionate? I know social media is a cesspit and there are those that shout loud, but we still have war in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, murder rates in south and Central America out of control, terror groups in east and west Africa, the Taliban back in Afghanistan etc etc
 
Are we becoming more compassionate? I know social media is a cesspit and there are those that shout loud, but we still have war in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, murder rates in south and Central America out of control, terror groups in east and west Africa, the Taliban back in Afghanistan etc etc
I think so. If you go back to Roman times, slavery was rife, war was seen as a glorious thing, we used to watch people kill animals and other people for entertainment. Crime and murder was definitely more rife.

Found this a good book on the subject.


Not everyone agrees though.
 
Of the world, human race?

Quite a few challenges...

Global warming and sea levels rising
A growing population placing ever increasing pressure on natural resources that are being destroyed at alarming rates
Species going extinct at alarming rates
the capacity to wipe ourselves out
Fears around AI

To counter that...
We're aware of the challenges is a good start
Technology and science could help bring solutions
We're showing more and more interest in the wellbeing of the natural world
Global birth rates are declining
We're becoming more compassionate as a species

So you feeling optimistic or pessimistic?

I think it could go either way but personally I'm optimistic about the future.

Right now bigger short term issues in this broken Country.
Unfortunately in my lifetime it won’t get back to what it once was.
 
Right now bigger short term issues in this broken Country.
Unfortunately in my lifetime it won’t get back to what it once was.

Are there bigger short term issues?

Unless your a complete climate change denier most scientists seem to accept we are 25-30 years at most away from a complete climate disaster.

Not diminishing cost of living etc… or saying we can in isolation do anything as a country to stop the environmental issues the World is facing, but if/when it does occur everything else will pail into insignificance.
 

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