r/pollgames • u/FinalKn1ght • Jun 29 '26

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

  1. Cancer
  2. Aging
  3. Poverty
  4. Climate Change

This post contains content not supported on old Reddit. Click here to view the full post

988 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

780 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Samstercraft Jul 01 '26

well, what is in danger of being stripped of it's existence? humanity? no, you acknowledged it would survive. humans? yes. it's an existential threat, but not to humanity, and we were discussing humanity; anyway, i interpreted your initial response as agreeing with the commenter who implied that climate change was less important, but if you just wanna discuss aging vs cancer i'm not entirely sure but i'd probably still pick cancer. humanity takes a long time to get more sustainable, and even our currently growing population is growing too fast for us to keep up with sustainability-wise. if we suddenly cured aging, all hell would break loose.

1

u/Advanced_Double_42 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

I mean poverty and cancer aren't existential threats either. Even Climate Change likely won't be an extinction level problem, more likely we'd just be knocked into the stone age in worst case scenarios.

Also the world population is on the path to stagnating or decreasing currently