Thanks for doing the bare minimum.

while I do completely agree with Apple depressing lack of any innovation recently, until modern foldable phones become commonplace, there is only so much you can do with a brick of glass.

They are not getting down-voted into nothingness for refusing to tow the party line.

I appreciate the variety of opinions presented here. Plus (in my experience) the conversation has been civil.

Calm down sparky.

Last time I checked we are all stuck here. Unless you have a Planet B that you’re keeping to yourself then we are all in this together.

Ah, but you forget about the rubber band finally snapping. When it is released there will be push back and things will happen quickly.

Now the real question becomes, how much more can we take. I believe we are reaching a tipping point where the uber-rich either help, or are removed. And I think they are starting to see that too.

Who is passing blame?

It’s our fault we are here, it’s our fault this happened, it’s our fault when we are finally gone.

But life itself will adapt, and overcome this obstacle, just like it has countless times before, and will countless times again.

Personally I believe that our lasting impact will be plastics, which will get compressed by time and become the “rocket fuel” of the next species to gain full sentience, which will allow them to explore the galaxy.

In my personal (very, very amateur) opinion; less than 10 years, where things keep running as “normal”

Humanity is awesome at adapting so I think it’ll be a very long time before things become impossible to deal with, but there is going to be a lot of transition and disruption over the next 20+ years

There is a scene in the TV show Newsroom (with Jeff Daniels) where he (the news show anchor) is interviewing a climate scientist about the climate change situation. Everything the scientist says eludes to the fact that we are completely screwed. That everything we are trying would have been great things to start doing 20+ years ago. At this point we have already passed the point of recovery.

It was aired in like 2015, and I think of it every time someone talks about this, and what a surprise this whole thing is.

And their quarterly profits!

Okay, when a government has completely collapsed, after the total collapse of the larger global leading entity; a peaceful revolution that results in something completely new, should be the top option.

But I don’t think we have that much time