{"id":39982,"date":"2013-12-10T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/that-which-survives.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:56:52","slug":"that-which-survives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/that-which-survives.html","title":{"rendered":"That Which Survives"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some alarmists (or folks poking fun at alarmists) talk about climate change (for example) as an extinction event for humans. \u00a0But that's unlikely. Humans will almost certainly adapt to dramatic climate change. We won't die out.<\/p>\n

But that doesn't mean civilization will survive. Or that we (those left of us) will be happy. \u00a0Or, if we are, that we'll know how far we've fallen.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Brandon Badger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

"If you know what real orange juice tastes like, Tang is no achievement. But if you are on a 50-year voyage, if you lose the memory of real orange juice, then gradually, you begin to think Tang is delicious."<\/i>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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What Happened On Easter Island \u2014 A New (Even Scarier) Scenario<\/a>
\n A new warning for all of us \u2014 from Easter Island\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some alarmists (or folks poking fun at alarmists) talk about climate change (for example) as an extinction event for humans. \u00a0But that's unlikely. Humans will almost certainly adapt to dramatic climate change. We won't die out. But that doesn't mean civilization will survive. Or that we (those left of us) will be happy. \u00a0Or, if … Continue reading “That Which Survives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,63,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-environment","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28032,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/i-used-to-laugh-at-those-handmaids-tale-alarmists.html","url_meta":{"origin":39982,"position":0},"title":"I used to laugh at those "Handmaid's Tale" alarmists","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-May-12 1:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"But it sure seems like we're edging closer to the whole \"embryos trump adult females\" kind of a world. 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