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 +====== Are Humans Doomed? ======
 +How the hell would I know?  If I could answer that I would probably also know the lottery numbers and would become 
 +supreme ruler of Earth by buying everything with my lottery winnings.
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 +I do have an opinion though, and to me it seems probable that we're not going to make it. It just feels like our 
 +little monkey brains can't make the kind of decisions that will allow 8 billion people to live on the planet without
 +using up all the resources.  The problem IMO is one of education and philosophy. We need a large chunk of 
 +8 billion people to settle on [[:a_better_philosophy|one philosophy]] and it has to be one that can convince us that we're all on the same team.
 +
 +If you could bet on that happening I'd bet against, and that makes me sad.  I don't think any of our problems are
 +really that big, the issue is that we're clever monkeys who have convinced ourselves that we're special. We need 
 +to see and accept that we're just clever monkeys, but also that we're clever enough that we can be [[human|human]] if 
 +we just put our minds to it.
 +
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 +FIXME - "the issue is" needs tweaking. that's the issue because it means that our monkey brains are doing monkey 
 +things like fighting over stupid shit when we should be working together to solve problems.