• shawn1122@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    For better or for worse will be the big question, especially since it’s a major driver of climate change which may result in our extinction. In any event the world has been set on this path by the West so we will have to see how it plays out.

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      5 days ago

      Someone would’ve figured it out sooner or later, just happened to be Europe in our timeline

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        5 days ago

        Perhaps, we often assume these transformations to be inevitable in hindsight, we as humans are biased to see things that way.

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      200 years from now will be interesting. I think that’s a good enough time away to really understand what we’re going thru now, and have faced the consequences.

      The hight of civilization, or the hubris?