Earth 'well outside safe operating space for humanity', scientists find

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67. My hunch (like yours) is that a "remnant" may survive

As I have suggested elsewhere, if it is realistic to believe that we could create self-sustainable colonies on the Moon and/or Mars (where there is essentially no atmosphere) creating a similar outpost on Earth should be (relatively) easy. One might imagine an underground city like the one in Logan’s Run or a large dome as portrayed in other works of Science Fiction. Of course a city like that would be quite an undertaking, and, if, for example, we were having trouble producing food crops, we might have higher priorities.

In addition, the great mass of people who would not be chosen might just be jealous of those who were…

Perhaps the “Nuclear Armageddon” we’ve worried about for decades will be spurred on by the competition for habitable/fertile land.


We’re already perpetrating a “Mass Extinction.” Climate Change might put the finishing touches on it for us, and we might fall prey to it ourselves. (It would seem fitting.)


The odds of human extinction may be low. Are they acceptable?