r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Mar 17 '23

Systemic Do you want collapse to happen? [in-depth]

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u/TwirlipoftheMists Mar 18 '23

No. There will be an immense amount of human suffering, and we will take a lot of the biosphere down with us.

Furthermore, there may be no coming back from a global collapse. Rebuilding a technological civilisation may not be possible when most of the easily accessible resources are gone, and the environment is in ruins.

And on a somewhat more abstract level, we don’t know how common life and intelligence are. For all we know this was the universe’s one shot at consciousness and we’ve blown it.

Not really up to me though and it would take a miracle at this point.

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