Maybe I was being very optimistic saying the next 1000 years, lol, the evidence presented by scientists doesn't look good for Earth, thank God I won't be around to experience them all.
How Stephen Hawking used his recognition to highlight challenges and existential threats for humanity.
www.bbc.co.uk
Cheers Geo
I wish you were wrong. Everything has it's time and everything dies. Every species becomes extinct eventually. Has to happen on someone's watch. The geological timescale and the population/extinction numbers are plain.
I spent much of my career as an archaeologist studying the rise of humanity via it's material culture. I call our current predicament the
Toolmaker Paradox.
I've only ever seen this expressed similarly in one other place, oddly, a work of science fiction, where it's called the
Toolmaker Koan, by John McLoughlin.
The book itself isn't great but the message is clear...
When a species reaches the tool-making stage, extinction is not far behind. The rate of social evolution is quickly overwhelmed by the speed of technological innovation. Disease is part of this process.
There is hope though, but it's a long shot, which is probably why we don't keep getting buzzed by aliens all the time.
