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Reddit mentions of Seveneves: A Novel
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Release date | May 2015 |
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I'm right there with you, and so are a lot of people. I still respect him for being one to inspire young children (he's kind of the Bill Nye of this generation), but he has lost a lot of credibility in recent years.
Recently read a book - Seveneves, and I'm pretty damn sure one of the main characters is NDT.
It's worth noting that relative food prices are highly linked to outbreaks of civil unrest; a rise of 6-8C in global temperature at current human population growth rates would cripple the current market for staples like rice, wheat, and potatoes even if Canada and Siberia become arable. It's likely a recipe for unrest on a scale humanity has never seen before. We thought the threat of global thermonuclear war was bad . . . Imagine 200 million starving South Asians, Indonesians, Brazilians, Nigerians, and Italians immigrating to nations with failing crops in search of food, security, livelihood . . . with nine or ten nuclear powers, at least five of which will be in immediate crisis themselves, with the others experiencing huge economic shocks because of climate change.
We don't currently have a backup plan. We might be able to create one, sure (I recommend Neal Stephenson for context on how incomplete such a plan would be on short notice). But getting 500,000 humans or so in a safe place with sustainable supplies, insulated from the conditions that caused the need . . . well, it's a tall order.
This is basically the plot of Neil Stephenson's Seveneves, but there we basically only had one year.
Try reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Very similar prospect except it's an astronomical event that causes everything on earth to get wiped out.
Regardless of what you might think the human race if we'd stop fighting over petty stuff could achieve incredible things.
Look at the ITER project going on over in Europe right now. If that is successful the world will never want for power ever again.
> Meanwhile they create an elaborate scenario where an eccentric billionaire kickstarts a series of successful new tech companies like a private aerospace manufacturing and transportation company, and an full electric transport manufacturing company.
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> All wrapped in future hype, but in reality it's all founded by governments to bootstrap space-colonization as fast as possible.
Sounds not too different than the Neil Stephenson book SEVENEVES. Blurb on Amazon has huge spoilers, so skip it if you want to discovery the story as you read it. If you liked "The Martian" for its near future sci-fi spaceflight, you will like SEVENEVES.
There's even a character in the book that reads very much like Elon Musk.
Neil Stephenson. Read Seveneves next.
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