Current Events > Anyone else think the future is bleak as hell?

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Feels like for the middle schooler and high schoolers of the world they're gonna come out of school into a huge mess

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for America fuck yeah if America had more than 30 years of a future i would be shocked

Nah.

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Kombucha posted...

Nah.

What makes you say that?

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CRON posted...

What makes you say that?

I mean science spit out 3 separate vaccines at break neck pace in the US alone and we're occupying one less country. The price of alternatives such as wind and solar are still on the way down and the hottest car on the market is electric.

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When is the future not bleak

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i think it'll be fine

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I'll smash that future away!

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Our future won't be as awesome as some in the past but if you think about it, it won't be as horrible as those ahead of us. Enjoy that you're right in the middle of "at least I didn't have to live through THAT bullshit"

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Kombucha posted...

I mean science spit out 3 separate vaccines at break neck pace in the US alone and we're occupying one less country. The price of alternatives such as wind and solar are still on the way down and the hottest car on the market is electric.

"Bro everything's gonna be fine cuz Teslas"

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Yeah, and I'm Brazilian so it's even worse here

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CRON posted...

"Bro everything's gonna be fine cuz Teslas"

Bro I can't see a bright spot if my life depended on it.

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prob be fine lol

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We'll be alright. Us humans have been thru bullshit before. For all of our flaws, we're a resilient bunch of assholes lol

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Kombucha posted...

Bro I can't see a bright spot if my life depended on it.

There's not much that's "bright" in these times.

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Kombucha posted...

I mean science spit out 3 separate vaccines at break neck pace in the US alone and we're occupying one less country. The price of alternatives such as wind and solar are still on the way down and the hottest car on the market is electric.

Only the bestest of species would put life and planet saving technologies behind a paywall.

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I think the world is going to improve technologically and socially. Climate change is going to fuck humanity over pretty hard before people actually fix it though imo

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Squall28 posted...

I think the world is going to improve technologically and socially. Climate change is going to fuck humanity over pretty hard before people actually fix it though imo

Climate change caused 4 out of 5 of the last major mass extinctions. What makes you think we're going to "fix" it? If the earth is warming up and we're helping it get warmer, there is no reversing the effect. We can slow it down but if the planet wants to warm up and melt ice poles, it will do that. If the earth wants to cool off and blanket half of the available land in ice, it'll do that, too.

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Jaded_Dragon posted...

Only the bestest of species would put life and planet saving technologies behind a paywall.

Yeah, I guess we could subsidize harder but even given the current state of things

Coal is being pushed off the power grid by competition from cheaper, cleaner energy sources, as well as rising public alarm about climate change and state policies meant to reduce emissions. Nationally, coal supplied just a quarter of the countrys electricity last year, down from nearly half in 2010, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-02-04/coal-power-plants-western-us

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Of course it is. The future was fucked 50 years ago.

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Yeah, barring a drastic course correction, the future for the world in general and the US in general is not looking good.

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Personal future: Much better than the past.

Globalistic future: Lol

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Usa could have a qanon president soon or a dictator soon because the dems dont stand up to these loons

Consider this: even if we managed to go to space, zero gravity wrecks our bone structure, space radiation wrecks our immune system AND women that have gone to space for an extended period of time have came back to earth STERILE because of the radiation constantly berating their bodies while they are not protected by Earth's atmosphere. Our future is pretty fucking bleak no matter HOW you look at it.

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I don't listen to DOOMERS.

I wish I wouldn't have worked so hard. First in my family to go to college, graduated 4.0, still have never had a good job. Almost had one in early 2020 and yeah that didn't happen for reasons.

Just play some games and chill out this shit don't matter. What's the dream really? Eventually Bezos is going to own all the houses and there won't be any left to buy anyway.

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waterjoe posted...

I don't listen to DOOMERS.

How do you see the future playing out?

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*points to sig*

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weekoldhotdog posted...

Climate change caused 4 out of 5 of the last major mass extinctions. What makes you think we're going to "fix" it? If the earth is warming up and we're helping it get warmer, there is no reversing the effect. We can slow it down but if the planet wants to warm up and melt ice poles, it will do that. If the earth wants to cool off and blanket half of the available land in ice, it'll do that, too.

There are some really smart people out there that I think will figure it out once they get enough world support. Humans aren't exactly like the other organisms they came before.

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Squall28 posted...

There are some really smart people out there that I think will figure it out once they get enough world support. Humans aren't exactly like the other organisms they came before.

The warming of the earth has to do with it's proximity to the Sun. Some years we get closer to it, some years we drift further away. All of this cycles in and out over the 4-5 billion years Earth has been chilling in this orbit. There is literally nothing we can do sub going underground or fly off into space that will change this. We cannot alter our orbit and even if we could, it would be immoral to do so. The outrage of people coming down on the ONE person that's going to change our orbit forever would be tremendous. There's no way it would be done.

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The future's so bright I gotta wear shades

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weekoldhotdog posted...

The warming of the earth has to do with it's proximity to the Sun. Some years we get closer to it, some years we drift further away. All of this cycles in and out over the 4-5 billion years Earth has been chilling in this orbit. There is literally nothing we can do sub going underground or fly off into space that will change this. We cannot alter our orbit and even if we could, it would be immoral to do so. The outrage of people coming down on the ONE person that's going to change our orbit forever would be tremendous. There's no way it would be done.

You don't think greenhouse gases have anything to do with it?

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Squall28 posted...

You don't think greenhouse gases have anything to do with it?

Green house gasses ceasing will only slow the warming of the earth. The cycle itself is inevitable.

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weekoldhotdog posted...

The warming of the earth has to do with it's proximity to the Sun

This is not true.

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Blo posted...

This is not true.

Yeah, it actually is. Orbital axis and global positioning to the sun as the Earth rotates around it changes heat on a yearly cycle. Factoring in solar flares and heat intensity and yeah, people don't have much to do with the earth heating up after all.

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weekoldhotdog posted...

Consider this: even if we managed to go to space, zero gravity wrecks our bone structure, space radiation wrecks our immune system AND women that have gone to space for an extended period of time have came back to earth STERILE because of the radiation constantly berating their bodies while they are not protected by Earth's atmosphere. Our future is pretty fucking bleak no matter HOW you look at it.

Yep. Expanding out into other worlds & the galaxy at large is just a fantasy.