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Environment & Energy

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4. I can imagine a few hardy hunter-gatherer bands near the poles

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 01:25 AM

Feb 2016

hanging on for the thousands of years it will take for the earth to recover.

It will be nip and tuck, though.

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And because we will not change voluntarily, industrial civilization will die. Binkie The Clown Feb 2016 #1

As Naomi said, we've already put it off for too long Hydra Feb 2016 #2

Possibly? Absolutely. It's simple math: Lorien Feb 2016 #3

I can imagine a few hardy hunter-gatherer bands near the poles Binkie The Clown Feb 2016 #4

Sadly, you are probably correct, but I prefer to remain an optimist. n/t Binkie The Clown Feb 2016 #6

Scattered neolithic bands hanging out near the poles pscot Feb 2016 #10

"The world will run out of love before it runs out of food" hatrack Feb 2016 #8

:( phantom power Feb 2016 #9