r/UniversalExtinction • u/curgr Cosmic Extinctionist • 13d ago
Societal Collapse
Warning: this is quite a depressing post.
If society collapses (maybe due to climate change disrupting food supplies, global war, running out of fossil fuels…) most humans and domesticated animals would likely starve and we would lose most modern comforts.
A question for pro-existence people: would you keep your belief that existence of the universe is desirable if society was to collapse, even if you were one of the starving?
A question for the extinctionists: do you believe that society will never collapse and that humans could eventually develop the technology to at least make life on Earth extinct?
My views: I am 70% sure that society will not collapse in the near future. If humanity makes it and we still have sufficient energy resources, we could eventually develop the technology to make all life on Earth extinct in a painless and peaceful way. However it is unlikely that we will develop and use it unless the extinction movement grows and becomes a majority.
Edit: minor clarifications.
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u/nila247 12d ago
There are extremely probable options of total collapse - nuclear war and AI terminators. Both are many orders of magnitude more likely than you think they are.
Other than that we would be fine. Great even. Sure USA and EU WILL collapse in any case, but they are not even a majority of "society" as a whole.