Book Received, Jólabókaflóðið 2021!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Book Received, Jólabókaflóðið 2021!

Comments

[jreynolds197]

This is a tough one - I think that we're (the world that very much includes Homo sapiens) coming in for a lot of pain in 10-15 years. The temptation is to say civilization as we know it is completely screwed.

Then I think of all the chuckleheads who have based their notion of 'The world is going to end on this particular date. Really! My big special book¹ says so!!' and they've been wrong every time.

So I'd like to be hopeful that we're not going to be living in a Mad Max style world by 2050 (which I could conceivably live to see, but only if civilization doesn't crash - I need medications that civilization produces). But the science is pretty depressing.

~oOo~

¹ Or Mayan calendar, or other newage (rhyming with 'sewage') BS.

[graydon]

I'd like to be hopeful, too, but if hydrologic stationarity goes generally agriculture goes.

("hydrologic stationarity" = climate scientist for "it rains at predictable times, in predictable amounts, and all the consequences thereof".)

There should be a decarbonized food security every-nerve-and-sinew effort going on. Instead we're getting wars and rumours of wars.

[philrm]

From Quatermass and the Pit (1967):

Quatermass: Roney, if we found out earth was doomed - say, by climatic changes - what would we do about it?

Roney: Nothing. Just go on squabbling as usual.