Never before has there been a point in time where:
-A determined individual with the right equipment could shut down the information network our society almost exclusively relies upon.
-Weapons created for war could destroy the conditions for human civilization across the entire planet.
-Everyday consumption keeps people complacent while the artificially low costs contribute to and accelerate the pace of climate change, which could be almost as bad as nuclear Armageddon.
-The speed and scale of travel is such that a disease could reach every corner of the earth and kill millions if not billions of human beings (or our food!) no matter where they live or where the disease came from.
I'm not a pessismist about humanity's future but if you ignore these things you are only fooling yourself.
i don't understand your point. I'm not discounting any range of horrific tomorrows. I'm just reading The Periodic Table by Primo Levi (an Auschwitz survivor) and the future that worries me is the rise of fascism.
But you are still living in a world that is objectively the safest it has ever been for a human being.
Never before has there been a point in time where:
-A determined individual with the right equipment could shut down the information network our society almost exclusively relies upon.
-Weapons created for war could destroy the conditions for human civilization across the entire planet.
-Everyday consumption keeps people complacent while the artificially low costs contribute to and accelerate the pace of climate change, which could be almost as bad as nuclear Armageddon.
-The speed and scale of travel is such that a disease could reach every corner of the earth and kill millions if not billions of human beings (or our food!) no matter where they live or where the disease came from.
I'm not a pessismist about humanity's future but if you ignore these things you are only fooling yourself.