# šŸŒ Is the planet Earth doomed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Reasonably serious discussion\ **Created:** [25 October 2017 14:35 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425 "2017-10-25T14:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [1 May 2018 22:02 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/141 "2018-05-01T22:02:47Z")
Quote from the Bible? ---
**Author:** ![SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbristol/32/607_2.png) [@SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SaintBristol)\ **Post date:** [1 May 2018 22:23 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/142 "2018-05-01T22:23:05Z")
Quote from reality šŸ˜† ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [1 May 2018 22:26 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/143 "2018-05-01T22:26:18Z")
A reality devoid of science? Thatā€™s the Bible. ---
**Author:** ![SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbristol/32/607_2.png) [@SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SaintBristol)\ **Post date:** [1 May 2018 22:48 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/144 "2018-05-01T22:48:56Z")
Sorry true šŸ˜Š 2 billion years in itā€™s current state. ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [1 May 2018 23:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/145 "2018-05-01T23:34:20Z")
You believe human will be here in a couple of billion years? Couple of decades more like. ---
**Author:** ![SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbristol/32/607_2.png) [@SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SaintBristol)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 00:36 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/146 "2018-05-02T00:36:55Z")
I believe human Saint or Sinner is a contrary cunt ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 05:48 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/147 "2018-05-02T05:48:08Z")
If that makes reality easier to ignore, good for you. ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 06:28 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/148 "2018-05-02T06:28:58Z")
Guy McPherson is talking shit and for some reason youā€™re choosing to believe him over all the other climate change scientists (I say ā€œall the otherā€ which is a bit misleading as it makes it sound like McPherson is a climate change scientistā€¦ and heā€™s not). Climate change scientists donā€™t exactly paint a rosy future and should be listened toā€¦ This bloke undermines their valuable work by belittling it and giving deniers the chance to mock the very notion. What surprises me more than you believing this idiot is the pleasure you seem to take from telling us weā€™re all going to die and that theyā€™re nothing we can do about it. Weā€™ll if thatā€™s the case, whatā€™s the point in telling us? I usually agree with what you say, SOS, but this is just batshit crazy talk. Mankind is not going to die out by 2026. ---
**Author:** ![CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cb-saint/32/95251_2.png) [@CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/CB-Saint)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 06:59 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/149 "2018-05-02T06:59:40Z")
Dying in 2026 does solve a few issues though. I can now legitimately tell the Ayatollah to fuck off when she starts crapping about my diet and my drinking. I can also stop paying into a pension and use the savings to get royally twatted over the next 8 years. Whats not to like? Oh given that Corbyn is at the helm, you are all likely to spend the rest of your lives under the rule of the Tories. ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 08:13 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/150 "2018-05-02T08:13:22Z")
Where have i said anything of the sort? > over all the other climate change scientists (I say ā€œall the otherā€ which is a bit misleading as it makes it sound like McPherson is a climate change scientistā€¦ and heā€™s not). Again, i have done no such thing. > Climate change scientists donā€™t exactly paint a rosy future and should be listened toā€¦ This bloke undermines their valuable work by belittling it and giving deniers the chance to mock the very notion. Heā€™s not really belittling it, just saying that itā€™s definitely going to happen and long before we believe(and science does believe). The only constant in this field is the fact that every prediction has come earlier than originally thought. > What surprises me more than you believing this idiot Where have i said i believe him? Stop doing a Ted and making up bollocks. Go back and you will see words like maybe and possibly when referring to Guy. > is the pleasure you seem to take from telling us weā€™re all going to die and that theyā€™re nothing we can do about it. No pleasure, just amazement at the head in sand attitude of the bulk of people. That level of willful ignorance deserves the piss taken out of it. Thereā€™s lots we can do, but we chose not too, despite all the evidence. Maybe Guy is the sane one(maybe, not definitely). > Weā€™ll if thatā€™s the case, whatā€™s the point in telling us? If people are to survive, they better start talking about it, if not, i think itā€™s only fair we face up to the destruction we have brought on all life. > I usually agree with what you say, SOS, but this is just batshit crazy talk. Possibly, but no more batshit crazy than those that deny the massive problems coming. > Mankind is not going to die out by 2026. I donā€™t think so either\*, but anyone that thinks renewables or creating food out of thin air is going to save us, is delusional on religious scale. 2035 would be my guess :lou_smiley: ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 08:23 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/151 "2018-05-02T08:23:45Z")
Start hoarding the rum and red wine :lou_lol: ---
**Author:** ![CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cb-saint/32/95251_2.png) [@CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/CB-Saint)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 09:06 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/152 "2018-05-02T09:06:35Z")
The real pisser is that i will never get to taste the leoville las Cases 2016 that is maturing away in my cellar at its prime ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 09:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/153 "2018-05-02T09:42:08Z")
Thatā€™s the kind of hardship that people forget. You have my deepest sympathy(assuming Guy is correct). If you ever need a hand disposing of it, iā€™m feeling charitable. I just put my phone down to do something and this next bit was on the screen when i picked it up. Phone was in front of me all the time, so no one else touched it. What the fuck happened? just chuck it via customs church via church culture culture culture culture culture culture chihuahua culture u uv u u guy u u u church u 7v u u u u can 6fy 6f 6 y6676y. Check 6y y6676y u y7y come up y7y. Very yummy chicken. Very 7 very. Yum yum 77 very cute 76 you can. 6.y.y.y6.y.y yum chicken y7ty. Can x. 6 you. Yum chicken yum yum chicken yy7 yum yum y6676y yum yum chicken y6676y yum yum, yum yum, yum v6 yum curry y7y chicken yum yum. Very. Very. Yum y6676y yum yum yum yyyyyyyyyyyyyy yum y7y u yum yum yyyyyyyyyyyyyy yy6ygy676t66666y6 y6676y 6y 6y 6 6 you, 6y zxzr 6, 666t66 ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 10:11 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/154 "2018-05-02T10:11:09Z")
Oh get over itā€¦I might not get that far as Iā€™m apparently in my ā€œtwilight yearsā€ but at least I was able to experience something you youngsters missed out onā€¦the squeeky orange selophane wrapper around a bottle of Lucozade. When we were confined to bed as youngsters with another bout of Diptheoria, Smallpox or Rickets there was that reassuring squeek of the wrapper coming off of another restorative bottle of Lucozade. Iā€™ll always have thatā€¦Lucozade that is, not Rickets. ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 10:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/155 "2018-05-02T10:29:43Z")
@lifeintheslowlane donā€™t forget the icicles that grew out of the cream in milk bottles when they were left on your doorstep in the winter. And then nicking said icicle when doing your early morning paper round for a bob!! ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 10:33 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/156 "2018-05-02T10:33:54Z")
Less than a bob a dayā€¦5 bob a week mate. We also had to scrape the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows to see out in the winter. Kids today are just soft, downy petals. :lou_eyes_to_sky: ---
**Author:** ![CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cb-saint/32/95251_2.png) [@CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/CB-Saint)\ **Post date:** [2 May 2018 11:19 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/157 "2018-05-02T11:19:12Z")
For some reason, I fancy KFC for lunch ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [18 May 2018 09:54 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/158 "2018-05-18T09:54:32Z")
Oh deary meā€¦the deniers are getting desperateā€¦ > **[GOP congressman asks if rocks are causing sea levels to rise](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/mo-brooks-nasa-climate-change/index.html)** > > A member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology evinced skepticism about climate change during an exchange with a witness about rising sea levels. :lou_facepalm_2: ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2018 19:26 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/159 "2018-05-24T19:26:47Z")
Some rather important food staples are losing their nutritional worth. This is a massive problem. > **[As CO2 increases, rice loses B vitamins and other nutrients](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/carbon-dioxide-increases-rice-loses-b-vitamins-nutrients?utm%5C_source=reddit&utm%5C_medium=social&utm%5C_campaign=r%5C_science)** > > Field experiments add vitamins to list of nutrients at risk from a changing atmosphere. But some will argue increased CO2 is good for plant growth. > **[Rising CO2 levels might not be as good for plants as we thought](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rising-co2-levels-might-not-be-good-plants-we-thought)** > > A 20-year experiment spots a reversal in the way two kinds of plants take up extra carbon from the atmosphere. Worrying, but not as worrying as the ozone problems. > Ground-level ozone pollution is already decreasing global crop yields (from āˆ¼2.2ā€“5.5% for maize to 3.9ā€“15% and 8.5ā€“14% for wheat and soybean, respectively), to differing extents depending on genotype and environmental conditions, and this problem is predicted to escalate given climate change and increasing ozone precursor emissions in many areas. > **[Why ozone poses a challenge toĀ foodĀ security](https://phys.org/news/2018-04-ozone-poses-tofoodsecurity.html)** > > Ozone is a well-known and interesting gas. It is thought of as a "good" gas when present in the stratosphere, where it forms the ozone layer sitting 15 to 30 kilometres above Earth that protect life from detrimental ultraviolet radiation. Crop yields have been in decline for a few years now. Add these discoveries to the ever growing list of problems and itā€™s just an acceleration of a problem that was always coming. Food wars before 2030 i reckon. ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2018 19:55 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-doomed/2425/160 "2018-05-24T19:55:22Z")
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