It may be that we’re not going to solve global warming, the earth is going to become an ecological disaster, and, you know, somebody will visit in a few hundred million years and find there were some intelligent beings who lived here for awhile, but they just couldn’t handle the transition from being hunter-gatherers to high technology.
Prof. Marty Hoffert of NYU, cited today in the NYT’s review of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change
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love it. scary though - it's been on my mind a lot lately.
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