RSS BotUS reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover'
May never recover? 80 years ago, Germany was split in two and the depths of the holocaust were still sinking into the worldwide consciousness. Given enough time, it absolutely can recover. Probably not in my lifetime, but eventually it might. Or maybe it’ll end up like Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, or the nation of Taiwan. Wait, that last one hasn’t happened yet… forget I said anything.
There was also a sham of Nuremberg trial, probably changing the outlook towards the German populace.
RamenJunkieMy man, the Earth has like 20-30 years of habitabiloty left max, and we are not really doing enough and we only started doing it all 30-40 years too late.
The US doesn’t have 80 years to recover thanks to the Climate Crisis.
Fitting that the US is the biggest historical polluter.
Immediately followed by our own military as the second. If you cared to even separate us.
oatscoopHumanity has survived several mass extinction events. Short of something on the far end of cataclysmic (i.e. “no complex life survives”) humanity will endure. We’re highly adaptable and can eat anything.
That doesn’t mean that most of us will survive, or those that do are going to be having a good time.
btsaxThe last mass extinction was 65 million years ago and humans are like 0.2 million years old
Late Pleistocene extinctions – 13-50 thousand years ago.
Youngest Toba Eruption – 74 thousand years ago. Almost all of humanity died, with an estimated surviving population of 3 to 10 thousand.
Our ancestors survived the last extinction event, you may mean.
Only because they were tiny rodent creatures. We don’t have that luxury.