Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.

LifeOfChance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• spizzat2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn’t, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn’t do it. Left to his own devices he couldn’t build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

  -Douglas Adam’s, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  Arthur Dent realizes that he, as an individual, is pretty useless for improving a society, but he can make a damn fine sammie.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thanks for the TED talk (really)

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  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That was a delightful video; thanks for sharing

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m pretty proud of myself as i believe i could at least build a water turbine to produce electricity and light bulbs, at least i know the building plans for them, but i lack the mechanical skills to actually weld together things.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re running off the assumption that the survivors know useful information and that theyre also able to utilize that useful information plus be able to source needed materials since they wont have travel

  I think we’re assuming books will continue to exist.

  I think one of the real marvels of civilization is the redundancy of information. For every college course you’ve taken there’s a text book, and there may have been dozens of physical copies of that book used in your class, but also for many other classes at other schools that taught that same subject. There may have been 10,000 copies of that book in circulation across the globe, in many different countries.

  It’s not impossible to lose information forever, but we’ve put in some really strong defenses against that really happening.

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• Nay@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just for clarification, I don’t think it’ll be fast. It will just be faster than without it.

  Also, I think we’ll hang on to a lot because the survivor base will likely be made up of people from all walks of life. STEM Professionals, teachers, carpenters, you name it. And as long as we learned our lesson about religion, we’ll pass that knowledge on.

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And stem professionals are also violence professionals (i.e. military and cops)? STEM tends to be very specific in their knowledge base these days. Yeah, they know how to make solar panels, but do they know where to get those materials, how to mine them? Even 80 years ago, it took several teams of hundreds of scientists to figure out nuclear energy. Lose half that team of specified individuals working together and you just have an idea. And those smart individuals gained their knowledge from smart individuals before them, and same for those individuals.

    Look at Greek fire or the pyramids for examples of lost technology that 2000 years later, we still can’t figure out. Losing a scientist here or there is generally not that big of a deal, but when you can’t control how many or who goes, you lose control of the knowledge.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Likely progression is simply that food gets expensive, and is grown indoors. Technology doesn’t need to fall, though when slaves are not needed, soylent green is a “utilitarian” use for them under rules based world order. Food capacity and population that can afford to buy it will match. Fewer people does mean fewer iphones, and more expensive at lower scale.

  Global warming, even at 5C, is more about increased misery and oppression, rather than mass deaths over a decade. Wikipedia will survive. The AI tech giants chatbots will explain why you need to die or be miserable until you die.

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