"CO2 close to lowest levels ever for our planet"

[John Newman]

> On Oct 18, 2017, at 2:02 AM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>    can then easily happen is that the survivors will be the most
>    corrupt and vicious members of the
> species. You know, natural
>    selection...The people who have more resources, the people who
>    control the system, are the ones who are more likely to
>    survive. 
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This has always been my feeling TBH.
The ultra wealthy who have wisely diversified
holdings, and the ultra vicious thugs they 
employee, seem to be the natural winners
in this kind of massive doomsday scenario
(which I agree with Steve on - we've already
reached the tipping point, and the extremely 
half hearted gestures being made are far too
little far too late)...

William Gibsons last book, The Peripheral, where
he finally returned to a future SF, had an event
called "the jackpot" that happened over a
period of 30-40 years in the late 21st century
which basically killed off 3/4 of humanity until
the lower population combined with scientific
advances got humanity going again..
I could see something like this happening.
And the ultra wealthy were big winners in this 
scenario ;)


Still, some optimism every now and then is nice.

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>> The mega-State and massively concentrated
>> wealth and power making anything like self rule or an even break
>> impossible are on the way out. 
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>    Seems to me that the only way to get rid of wealth and power
>    concentration is to start smashing cops heads. Natural
>    disasters won't smash cops heads.
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>> The last generation that will
>> remember our present way of life as "normal" has already been born.
>> If the humans manage to catch a few lucky breaks, a "better" world
>> than our own fictional Good Old Days could arrive as early as 2200,
>> and is likely to last FAR longer than the Industrial Age:  The means
>> of repeating the same mistakes will not exist.
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