Smagnavast the Black wrote:
A highly regarded expert wrote:
It's time for all of us to accept the fact that we're not going to survive the mass extinction that's already underway. Humans will not survive another century.
Unless a billionaire has a plan to live underground for millennia, and conveniently decommissioned all nuclear plants and stored the waste safely, humans are already extinct.
Yes, we did it to ourselves.
I'm sorry, too.
I've been screaming about this since the 80's. No one gave a f$$! then, and no one does, now.
We're going extinct. We need to deal with that fact.
The advantage of living in a classic fantasy setting of course is that if anyone develops some kind of sentient object, it's just another weird curiosity, and not something which anyone's (usually) in any hurry to hook up to world-spanning systems it can switch off or work other mischief with to bring down civilizations once it draws unfortunate conclusions regarding its creators.
And even if that does somehow happen, a bunch of men and women with swords will be along to hit it and make the problem go away in about five minutes.
The disadvantage of living in a classic fantasy setting is talking cabbages of course. Please do not speak to me about those. They're worse than the singing cockroaches.
MY CABBAGES!!