Civilization is rather like a rabbit shot on the run. It's already dead, but it keeps going

[tblue37]

for a while in the same direction before it falls over. (A modified version of a line from a John Barth novel.)
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"There's every reason to think that there's more and more dangerous things coming down the pike." — Historian
@adam_tooze
(@columbia), author of "Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy," tonight at 11pm with @spaikin

[magicarpet]

1. Democracy is suffering from the same predicament.

[tblue37]

2. Democracy still has some small chance to survive for a but it's gonna be impossible to maintain even

a semblance of democracy as civilization collapses.

[KentuckyWoman]

3. I don't agree with the sentiment.

MODERN civilization... MAYBE. But our way of life is not the only way of life. If 99% of humans die off, that still leaves us humans. Humanity may continue for millions of years as smaller local groups.

[tblue37]

4. Tiny groups scratching for a living from a ruined ecosphere.

[Elessar Zappa]

8. There will be places

that are still nice to live in, even in a worst case climate scenario.

[Piasladic]

5. You might overestimate how long the Earth will be habitable for humans

Humanity is overrated.

[Klaralven]

6. That's not really true -- they sort of tumble or slide, depending on the terrain

[canetoad]

7. Humans have a problem

In comprehending the vast geologic time scale of the planet. Understandable - look top, centre of this diagram. That's our history compared to Earth's 4.5 billion years.