ttystikk
Well-Known Member
Extinction is extinction. I don't see much difference.Be a way cooler way to go, fighting off an army of intelligent robots to the death.
Rather than just blindly continuing on the same path, not heeding warnings and science, and then slowly polluting ourselves into extinction.
'Collapse', by Dr Jared Diamond. The 'sequel' to Guns, Germs & Steel, it discusses human civilizations that have come and gone before the modern era. There were a lot of them and they offer lessons for us if we care to listen.
One of the best examples is that of Easter Island; several competing factions stripped the island of its resources in competition with each other and ultimately everyone died, leaving behind a denuded landscape with only stone statues facing inward.
The only difference between the Easter Islanders and us is that we have the technology to do it to the entire Earth.