Hard to tap into interdimensional cosmic radio if the species goes extinct, m8.
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It definitely does.
I'm not sure if it does *right now*, mind, but the Venn diagram of 1-planet species and technological advancement is called "extinction risk".
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I don't know how long that timeline needs to be, necessarily. There are people alive today who were adults when nukes were invented.
And that's a very finite game.
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I unironically wonder if global pandemic is as close as we're getting to a fighting chance.
We're at levels of embedded corruption that do resemble early medieval Europe. The Black Death really did a number on the power brokers back then.
But we are also interdependent now...
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... so disruption of trade et al. means something rather different than it did back then.
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Here is the nr. 1 problem:
indexmundi.com/blog/index.php
Add a bit of climate change, and the *majority* of the lower side of this map goes red, as does some of the upper half.
If you wipe out global supply lines, the majority of the world's population turns into Rome during the final war of the Roman Republic.
With no Egypt to unblockade.
Of course, a lot fewer mouths to feed, too, but...