• Art3mis@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Yes but the longer it takes to address them, the worse the fever gets. We still have an opportunity to not burn ourselves out. Albeit a slim one. Earth will be scarred but will survive. Unless we change our ways, we will not.

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        5 hours ago

        With the way they are acting carelessly; I truly doubt they will do much better. The ruling class may srvive for a hundred or so years after the rest of us but without massive changes, they are also doomed.

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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          2 hours ago

          The “ruling class” of today rely on the vast pools of labor that constantly increase with food production and industrialization. If something ever killed a significant percentage of the world and reversed population trends, they’d have much less leverage to continue their way of life as they do now. That doesn’t mean things will be good, but there can only be so much cannibalism before it is no longer in a ruling elite’s self interest.