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Humans as a species, I'm not too worried about -- we're resilient. But the elaborate social superstructures we've been building over the years -- modern civilization and modern technology -- that is far more fragile than we care to admit.
It's a house of cards -- a million interdependent pieces, many relying on trust or belief, and many requiring expert knowledge that only lives in the brains of a few thousands of people. If history is any guide, it may not last forever.
When we picture the apocalypse in pop culture, we imagine a devastating event happening overnight -- maybe nuclear war. But it will not take a very large stressor to bring down modern societies, and it will not happen in a day. Climate change may do the trick, over a century or 2
It does not take a dropkick to bring down a house of cards, a little breeze suffices
Who says you have to get off the planet? We haven’t been at this that long, and we know nothing.
our current civilization and technology may just be a failed experiment in evolutionary terms... who knows.
The collapse of society cannot be equated to collapse of humans. There’s many society and civilization have collapsed, the species humans have moved on
Just more robust, not really antifragile
That's OK. Fragile structures (and species) make way for more enduring ones. Such is the cycle of life.
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