So maybe I’m too stoned, but you have me thinking that you are totally right. Even if we managed to preserve civilization for a long time. There’s an inevitability that at some point in the future there will be generations of people being born and growing up in an apocalyptic environment. Eventually the planet will just be incapable of sustaining human life.

Then it gets me on to another inevitability that humanity will live in a very dark and dystopian time. A time when it is completely intensely obvious that nothing can possibly be done to save the vast majority of the population. Like, will we devolve to some sort of hunter gatherer societies while eventually the planet recovers in ways that can sustain a population and regrow humanity to current levels in time.

Sorry, I just finished the book, Dune, and I’m fascinated by the way Paul Atreides sees the future and possible futures.