Oh i’m pretty sure life on Earth won’t go extinct. The dinosaurs weren’t the last living beings either.
In fact if humans go extinct, they’ll probably be replaced by another hyper-intelligent species in less than 100 million years, i guess. Which is 2% of earth’s age.
Also, probably not even humanity will go extinct due to climate change. The real crisis is the late-stage capitalism which is like a cancer that eats away all the resources so the healthy tissue (humans) can’t live anymore.
The argument has been made that, even if another intelligence arises in 100 million years, there are multiple problems for them: the Sun will be burning hotter by then, easily accessible raw material will all have been used up (Cyprus is no longer covered in surface-level raw copper, for example), we’ll probably irradiate the surface on our way out, etc.
In landfill, but not as raw material. If you didn’t already know how to make bronze, for example, you’d have a hell of a time making new bronze based on old contaminated remnants.
Oh i’m pretty sure life on Earth won’t go extinct. The dinosaurs weren’t the last living beings either.
In fact if humans go extinct, they’ll probably be replaced by another hyper-intelligent species in less than 100 million years, i guess. Which is 2% of earth’s age.
Also, probably not even humanity will go extinct due to climate change. The real crisis is the late-stage capitalism which is like a cancer that eats away all the resources so the healthy tissue (humans) can’t live anymore.
The argument has been made that, even if another intelligence arises in 100 million years, there are multiple problems for them: the Sun will be burning hotter by then, easily accessible raw material will all have been used up (Cyprus is no longer covered in surface-level raw copper, for example), we’ll probably irradiate the surface on our way out, etc.
doesn’t that just mean that these end up in landfills, i.e. close to the surface?
In landfill, but not as raw material. If you didn’t already know how to make bronze, for example, you’d have a hell of a time making new bronze based on old contaminated remnants.
That might mean they figure out their societal problems before they try to industrialize