I never got on the SSD bandwagon when they came out, I held back until they got to be at least a reasonable size without making you take out a second mortgage. And by reasonable size I mean "nothing less than a TB".
Never met one myself. Seriously, though, we need to not be stupid about how we handle what we have, but we also need to not be stupid about how important we think we are.
Yeah i think my WD blue !TB cost me about 100
We've always been doomed. It's in the script. We either get off this ball of dirt or we all die, no matter what we do, when the Sun expands. It's inevitable. Fretting about it is only going to make the time we've been granted more miserable.
We can greatly accelerate our decline though. I'm all for buying us more time until intervention is achieved
not just that, we are living on a really wild planet, which has a quite nice and welcoming phase currently - but this phase won't last, it will return to it's wild nature. it is just sad, that the genus homo doesn't even make it to 3 million years on this planet - what a lousy job we are doing in the only aspect what counts - survival. We are parasitic in nature and once we have exhausted those resources we need, we will decline to insignificance - not that nature would care, it has dealt with more crap like us before.
I'm very much in favor of that. But setting ourselves back a century ahead of time isn't going to help anything. I have great faith in our ability to come up with better ways of using the resources we've been given. We'll get there. We've got the aforementioned ball of fire in the sky that is providing us with an enormous source of energy. Clean and not infinite, but for much longer than we need in order to come up with something better, yet we haven't yet quite figured out how to make it viable.
All species are parasitical by nature. But we have intelligence, and that's a plus. We just need to not get ahead of ourselves and think that we can do what we can't. That way madness lies.
You're American like I am, right? How is reducing mobility going to work here? I know it would work fine in Europe, I grew up there, but it certainly wouldn't work where I live now where public transportation is non-existent because it's not financially viable.
there will be done too little too late - due to selfishness - people won't pay for stuff what doesn't benefit them now and they will certainly not intentionally do anything what makes their lives more miserable now either. if our species would have a hive mind and be more drone-like, we could survive this, but we are individuals and selfish and just won't.
That's our ultimate downfall, I believe, but it's also, ironically, what makes life worth living. If I ever thought of myself as just another cog in a wheel (whether I am or not), I'd eat my shotgun. But you're not wrong.
That reminds me of a very oft-quoted line from Men In Black, which I find myself using quite a lot in life.
Hell yeah!
We also need to make sure we don't trick ourselves into thinking we aren't doing what we are, because not doing it would be more convenient. It is unfortunately the case that clever people are often very good at post-hoc rationalisation, and it would be a shame to discover that this holds true at the level of species too!
Fermi Paradox proves that there is no use to try hard to avoid the inevitable anyway.
