When you contemplate the fact that storms are getting more violent, droughts are becoming longer and more severe; that Arctic ice is disappearing at an alarming rate, as is the ice packs on Greenland, and Antartica, and that Miami, at its current rate of flooding, will be underwater in less than 50 years.
All this is happening before our eyes and yet we have the Republican Party denying it is happening. A large portion of the main stream American media choose not to cover the story.
Elections are won with less than 40% of the people bothering to vote or even understand what is at stake. The Billionaires treat life as a game and the people who work for them as “Human Resources” to be expended in wars of oil conquest or simply to provide them with more wealth by denying the 90% under them the means to a healthy life for themselves and their families.
We have known for years that there are ancient diseases in the ice of Greenland. Diseases that our modern immune systems have no resistance to. We know too that there are asteroids that continuously pass the earth. In time, one is going to hit. We have taken no precautions to identify or prepare for this event.
You don’t often think of volcanoes when it comes to making entire species extinct, but the Permo-Triassic Extinction – the biggest extinction event of all time, when 95 per cent of all Earth’s species were wiped out 252 million years ago – coincided with the largest known volcano eruption in Earth’s history, in Siberia.
New research published last year from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows that the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster than we previously thought, and that it might flip within the next 100 years. This event threatens our survival because Earth’s magnetic field deflects particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun, as well as even more energetic particles from deep space.
Of course the greatest threat to human life is human life. Our increasing irrational hatred of “the other” is always in the background. Increasingly we spew hate and go out of our way to physically provoke hateful incidents. We recently elected as leader of the US a man who increasingly show signs of not being a rational human being. This man is now in charge of our nuclear arsenal and he could become the catalyst of a global nuclear war.
So with all these life ending events staring us in the face, I don’t think we have to sweat AI anytime soon.
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