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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Bullshit. That's just doomer hysteria. Short of an asteroid impact there isn't going to be some apocalypse.
Climate change is just CHANGE. Things will change. Species will adapt, or die, and new species will emerge.
Sadly, change terrifies people. This is also why they refuse to 'make things better' even though we have the means, because that means CHANGE. ooo scary!
I mean, I didn't say world ending, I said species ending. With climate change we have already observed species going extinct at an increasingly quick pace, and it's hubris to think we couldn't eventually be one of them if things continue.
Likewise, the potential for nuclear war seems less unlikely than it did 5 years ago, 10, or 20 years ago, and would wipe out many species and could potentially wipe out humanity, or enough of humanity to permanently reshape the species.
The rhetoric of the entire world ending is extremist, but it's not sci-fi anymore to imagine that in a few generations there may be no recognizable modern humans, even if there are bipedal hominids still roaming around. It's not even speculative to imagine a world missing many of its current species, just go to any coral reef and compare it to pictures from 50 years ago.
None of those things will end human life. It will simple be reduced. It has happened before.
Yeah, one of the things that makes us the dominant species is our ability to adapt to our environment. We'll build underground structures and farm food underground.
What worries me is microplastics affecting fertility. It doesn't matter how adaptable a species is if they can't make more.
The issue with climate change isn't the change, or the magnitude of the change, its the rate of change. Life as a whole will adapt, but its not hyperbolic to talk about civilization altering effects. We already have island nations being buried underwater in decades instead of millenia, this isn't normal.
Sure, things are going to persevere, humanity probably will persevere, but we also persevered through the black plague, doesn't mean we wouldn't have tried to prevent the plague if we had the chance. Climate change is clearly brought about by human activities, and if we want to continue our historical upward trend in quality of life, we need to reduce our CO2 output.