Two things that can both be true: 1. The world is getting better, by most metrics of human well-being 2. The risk of a major catastrophe is going up over time Yet I often see ppl try to dismiss 2 by saying "The doomsayers are wrong, things are getting better, [argument for 1]"
We are sucking negentropy from our environment at a rate that far exceeds sustainability, and we won't escape this gravity well in time. Also, our sun burns out in ~5Bn years, not trillions.
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Why would our descendants stick around a dying sun to their doom? Odd prediction. I don't even know if we're talking about the same thing; our impact on the universe's (even solar system's) entropy is vanishingly small. Why conflate that with environmental destruction?
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Because we won't leave the solar system. We are not even able to plan ahead for the next 50 years.
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