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Environment & Energy

Ghost Dog

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4. Yes: The more sophisticated, the more fragile the web.

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 10, 2016, 08:50 PM

Sep 2016

Still, I'm expecting total civilisational, but not absolute species, collapse.

There will be some attempted 'ark'-building. And there will be, amid the mass die-off, much profound primitivity.

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Unravelling the myth of a "carbon budget" for 1.5C [View all] GliderGuider Sep 2016 OP

That which others accept with great despair I will embrace as a rising tide of opportunity. hunter Sep 2016 #1

Disaster, yes. Human extinction, no. Jim Lane Sep 2016 #2

You do realize that "technology" requires a large number of interoperating systems? GliderGuider Sep 2016 #3

Yes: The more sophisticated, the more fragile the web. Ghost Dog Sep 2016 #4

Yes, but it doesn't require 7 billion people to maintain it. Jim Lane Sep 2016 #5