Re: NYTimes.com: The Kids Are Making ‘Marriage Pacts’ to Distract Themselves From Doom

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Just another sobering article:

 https://phys.org/news/2021-05-biodiversity-devastation-human-driven-decline-requires.html

It's not enough that we have all these nuclear weapons hanging over our
heads, but the planet's life systems are quickly dying off.

We were listening to a podcast, and they were saying that there is a
tipping point at which nobody cares about anything (i.e., no legacy
concerns) if they knew that some time after their death, there would be a
mass extinction of humans.  The question they didn't answer was how long
after your death that you knew of a human extinction would be the "don't
care" tipping point?  1 year?  10 years?  100 years?

 > From: heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>
 > Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 11:27:57 -0700
 >
 > Yes, but what is cool about this is that it started out as a lark at Stanford—
 >  no participants took it seriously — and then it took off during Covid when 
 > these kids need connections.
 > 
 > I’ve heard about it for several years but this year it was a much bigger 
 > deal.  I think the community building aspect is very important