@Meaningness @JonHaidt weird that people are certain if it's vague. Nobody behaves like the odds of eg superbug or asteroid are very high.
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@Meaningness@JonHaidt I think the more important claim by futurists is that people don't *act* in accordance with estimates - 2 more replies
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@Meaningness makes me wonder why relatively few are stockpiling canned beans -
@Meaningness I speculate that the ecological movement has made it fashionable to short humanity's chances in the abstract... - 1 more reply
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@Meaningness@JonHaidt 100 years. That's ridiculous. It will AT LEAST 120 ... :-(Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness if you have kids you're incentivized to care... also *within* 100 years -- could be tomorrowThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness I’d find the quotation from Hermann Kahn more impressive if we didn’t just have the VW scandal and this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/24/why-some-scientists-are-worried-about-a-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean/ … -
@Meaningness “Those crazy people think their kids will have it worse than they do” — median incomes are lower now than 15 years ago.
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