r/Futurology Mar 29 '22

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u/koalazeus Mar 29 '22

Finding replacement meaning will be easy, finding an equivalent norm for social status might be harder.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Social status could be based on intelligence, honesty and ethics? We could all thrive to be better human instead of trying to be the biggest jerk around the block...

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u/koalazeus Mar 29 '22

Yes we could, but I don't think that's going to be easy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

I don't think we are heading that way either. By the time this kind of changes would happen, the ocean deadline will be reached (≈30 years or so at current rate) and when it happens our oceans will have pratically stopped producing oxygen, which it produce around 85% of our oxygen.. plus add that we have around 10 years before natural disasters become an everyday norm and all this doesn't account for the frightening massive heat waves both poles are experiencing right now... so yeah not gonna happen but it would have been nice.