3 years ago

The upcoming extinction of Man

00:00 Outline of the talk
01:20 Prophets and prophecies
06:35 Causes for extinction proposed by biblical and ‘scientific’ prophets.
11:15 Definitions of mass and background extinction.
12:50 Two versions of prophets: 1. Man will never die. 2. Man will die in the longterm future.
14:50 Is the extinction of Man a scientific issue?
19:55 Pre-requisite: must take Ext 101 before we deal with Ext 102.
21:25 Mathematical Physics version of the end of the Universe.
22:45 Rope Model: matter cannot convert into space; space cannot convert into matter.
23:55 Extinction 101: What a researcher has to explain.
26:05 Theory: orders and families of plants periodically and inevitably disappear.
34:30 Theory: in the seas, primary production periodically disappears.
37:05 Extinction 102: How Man will become extinct (extrapolating the mass extinction mechanism to humans).
37:45 Global population is growing at a slower rate (i.e., fewer consumers in the future).
38:45 We are an old species: humans have little genetic diversity.
43:45 Mouse Utopian Universe experiments. Founder Effect. Homosexuality and autism.
45:30 People do desperate things when they are starving.
47:45 … but lost tribes are not part of our economic system. Will they survive?
51:05 How Government finally disappears: The Chain of Money. Economic collapse.
55:00 You can’t have ever more unemployment funded by ever fewer workers.
55:55 The Big Picture: history of modes of production.
59:40 Services = masked unemployment. More workers in services = more unemployment.
01:04:55 “If money /Government collapses, I’ll celebrate and start doing some brisk bartering without taxation.” NOT!
01:06:55 Basal hunter/gatherers did not trade. If you trade after the collapse, you forfeited your life.