So let's say that it is the modern man who is condemned and not the planet.Christophe wrote:Capt_Maloche wrote:+1000
Obviously, the media should have corrected a long time ago
For me it is not the man ... but our current "way of life and comfort" that the warming will condemn ...
But what is modern man?
Certainly in the last 30-40 years we have seen the explosion of the consumer society with all its good and bad sides. But for me it is not what is most in danger in what I call modern man because we will manage to survive and even live without an Ipod, a plasma TV, without our computers and the Internet, without our portable and even without a big German sedan.
For me, what poses a problem to me is the disappearance of:
- Globally organized societies which allow us to sleep on our two ears without checking 20 times a night if we have baricaded the house, without checking 20 times that the Kalashnikov is in its place;
- Organized companies with systems for the production of drinking water and treatment of our wastewater, which globally distributes energy to those who need it (even if it is too often wasted);
- hospitals that are capable of treating illnesses as simple as bronchitis (poorly treated this can quickly turn into pneumonia) or malaria and cholera (which will not fail to appear with the lack of hygiene and mosquitoes rising towards our lattitudes). Let us remember the damage in the 18-19th centuries and before epidemics of plague, Spanish fever, leprosy ...;
- an educational system which, although imperfect, allows the greatest number of people to have a sufficient knowledge base to evolve in a world much more complex than the Middle Ages ...
The destruction of modern man is not only the disappearance of our overconsumption !!!
If 99% of the human population disappears, what technology do you think it will have? Do you believe that within 1% there will be enough technicians / engineers, doctors or scientists to reconstruct this technology ?? Unless the disaster is anticipated and governments select some to shelter them, I am afraid that an apocalyptic scenario like this one will simply make us go back a few millennia back and that the slope will be lasts or even impossible to reassemble.Look at Blade Runner: it rains 24/24 ... because of industrial pollution.
In the worst case, in the event of a runaway and massive extinction (99% of humans), I think that the ingenuity of the human species and its technology will allow it to survive ... but far from current comfort!
PS: otherwise, despite these words, I'm fine, I got up on the right foot and I'm happy to be where I am