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I mentioned this in the existential risk thread in D&D but I think it's likely that climate change is the great filter and insurmountable. The evolutionary paradigm necessitates a balance between competition and cooperation. The competitiveness necessary to reach the point of space travel leads to pollution being treated as an externality. Getting ahead of the other tribe will take priority over preserving the environment. No species can master fire without choking itself to death.
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:that's just capitalism, op I get that, I don't think it's an avoidable problem for species who can get to the point where space travel is possible.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 20:43 |
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Bonobos don't have capitalism or space travel. I'm not pretending I can prove any of the rest of this. Another point would be that we were fortunate enough to also have fossil fuel but it's not clear that's always going to be an option for intelligent species and without them I'm not sure industrialization even happens. So you don't get space travel but also don't doom yourselves. Maybe a bonobo type civilization will make it to space the slow way, where they create dense fuel themselves from massive community owed solar farms. I hope so! Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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