Science puts an expiry date on human civilization

Beatriz

· 23 May 2021

Science puts an expiry date on human civilization

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Scientist Avi Loeb points out that in a few centuries everything could come to an end, although there are complex solutions to avoid it.
Avi Loeb has published a study in the journal Scientific American in which he tries to solve a question raised by former Harvard students: how long does human civilization as we know it. The scientist has clear the expiry date that awaits us.
In the most likely event that we are witnessing the adulthood of our technological life, we are likely to survive a few centuries, but not much more. After publicly declaring this statistical verdict, I realized the horrible prognosis it implies, he has reflected.

The scientist, anyway, does not see the future as black as statistics determine. There is a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. It implies the possibility that we possess free will and be able to respond to the deterioration of conditions by promoting a future longer than a few centuries.

The key to achieving this is as direct as it is complex: “Sensible public policy could mitigate the risk of technological catastrophes associated with climate change, self-inflicted pandemics or wars. Our chances of survival could improve if some people choose to move away from Earth.”.

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mirlaurda

4 years ago

Global warming, wars with nuclear weapons, lethal viruses end all this man-created and yet they don't mind destroying the world constall of their own profit

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