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Oh no, the end of the world!!! Again?
Hey, it's gotta happen SOMETIME
People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years, they've been wrong every time. This causes me to take further predictions with a pinch of salt.
I'm not making a theological prediction based on the Bible. I'm parroting what I read here on Lemmy everyday about global warming, political inequality and despotism, the rise of the oligarchy, plastic poisoning of the environment, the constant (mostly ignored) threat of nuclear weapons, and many other very tangible scientifically verifiable problems.
Humans had few tools capable of destroying the earth in the 10th century. Now we have many.
You know when the nights get longer that Winter is coming. Read the signs. What do you see happening?
I'm not talking about religious predictions exclusively, I'm saying that every single "end of the world" prediction so far has been wrong.
I don't doubt that the planet is in a pretty dire state, but resilience is one of humanities strongest traits and short of meteor strike or all out nuclear war, there's a good chance that at least some of us will survive.
I am intrigued by what you think 10th century humans had that could destroy the world though.
Slash and burn would probably be it. With enough humans though, the possibilities increase even with lesser technologies.