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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The species became a superpower because of fossil fuels which allows each person to benefit from energy accumulated over millennia all in one geological eyeblink.

The chaos you are seeing around us is simply what happens when the drugs run out. The tinder was smoldering all along.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd say agriculture made us a super power before fossil fuels, but even then, humans were wiping out other species during the hunter/gatherer phase. (Not a lot of giant sloths around any more...)

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Um, do you think we could feed 8 billion people without massive fossil fuel inputs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

So you think the species only became a "super power" because it hit 8 billion individuals? If so, then I've got some e coli cultures that would bring humanity to it's knees.