Let’s not fool ourselves: ‘Free love’ isn’t opportunistic love where each person thinks first about him/herself. Free love is love free from egoistical interests, love for life without conditions, without asking for reward, as the love of a mother for its children.
To quote Lord Business, what a bunch of hippy, dippy baloney. Despite the catchy title, this whole article is pure garbage. Unless we nuke ourselves, our species won't be going extinct any time soon.
Most scientist even believe that it won't be nukes that will decimate us, although it's a probability. Think more along the lines of; Bees going extinct, a meteor impact (a few days one went by closer than the moon), the next ice age (take your pick in how it would happen; yellowstone volcano erupting, polar shift, Antarctic ice chunk breaks off, etc.), a large tsunami (something bigger than we saw in Japan, Fukushima), and the list goes on. Furthermore, we would need half of another earth of resources should we continue in this mass-producing-polluting system we have sustained so far.
And, we are far overdue for another breakdown of civilization as we know it. The Fate of Empires by Sir John Glubb has a nice synopsis on this.
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KoKansei ago
To quote Lord Business, what a bunch of hippy, dippy baloney. Despite the catchy title, this whole article is pure garbage. Unless we nuke ourselves, our species won't be going extinct any time soon.
Wuttier ago
I beg to differ.
Most scientist even believe that it won't be nukes that will decimate us, although it's a probability. Think more along the lines of; Bees going extinct, a meteor impact (a few days one went by closer than the moon), the next ice age (take your pick in how it would happen; yellowstone volcano erupting, polar shift, Antarctic ice chunk breaks off, etc.), a large tsunami (something bigger than we saw in Japan, Fukushima), and the list goes on. Furthermore, we would need half of another earth of resources should we continue in this mass-producing-polluting system we have sustained so far.
And, we are far overdue for another breakdown of civilization as we know it. The Fate of Empires by Sir John Glubb has a nice synopsis on this.
Perhaps I see the glass is half empty...