If humans were extinct

RE: If humans were extinct

I notice they don't mention anything about global warming...

RE: If humans were extinct

Brilliant! Thanks vegan woman 😉

RE: If humans were extinct

Nice Timeline! 😉

All Together Now.

Take your pick:-
Atomic Bombs courtesy of Terrorists.
An Asteroid, Small but Effective.
Smallpox.

We are under threat of extinction as never before. All of us at once , which is a great comfort. Singled out by a sharp little meteorite and smitten at the bus stop is no good. You don’t want everybody else, bending over you, fit and well and all are thinking thank goodness it was him and not me. With a whizzing asteroid it is them as well, so serves them right.

With this asteroid strike, what happens is it fails to get light one morning and is pitch dark at half past ten. Putting aside the usual interior decorators and new authors the news programme on television tells us what has happened. An asteroid had struck Earth in the vicinity of New Zealand last night. It is estimated that it was fifteen kilometers across. The experts among you will know that is enough, that’ll do for all of us. First thing we do is nip up the Co-Op for a hundredweight of flour and a giant bag of rice. It is hopeless, the Co-Op is a seething mass of fighting humanity. You pick up a tin of shoe polish some distance away but that’s all you can get. If you try to get anything else you’ll get a broken leg which will not help.

Back home, break up your fences, and the shed, and pile up the wood in the lounge for a fire. Rip out the gas boiler and thank providence you have got a chimney. You will burn the doors and most of the roof as well before long. It is usual in these cases. Dig a deep hole in the conservatory to try to reach water. After six feet you achieve a sandy scum. Laughing.

You won’t last long though, no-one will. You may wrap yourself in the loft insulation but it will get too cold. The new ice age is here in a few days. About the same time as the food runs out. Pretty depressing at this stage. If the asteroid had been under ten kilometres across you may have survived, but it wasn’t. This asteroid does for mushroom spores and blue whales alike.

It’s never as bad as it seems though. There may be no asteroid. Smallpox may get you. I can see that mad scientists might make an unstoppable virus which works beyond their wildest dreams and they are the first to die. Slumped over their benches with the spilt test tube on the floor. A lump under the arm is the symptom so everybody has got one hand inside their coat. Then a look of surprise and down we all go. We catch it by looking at each other so it is fairly contagious. It also is caught by not looking at each other.

The Terrorists surprise packet will be a disappointment. I’m for the all or nothing Armageddon, but this one won’t hurt anybody. The suitcase of enriched uranium they got on the black market is a ‘sting.’ It’s ground up pencil lead mixed with Araldite. You can’t waste a million on blowing up a bit of desert as a test so Al Qaeda only has a weapon of mass ridicule.

They will keep trying. They are abit ambitious with their quest for ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction.’ They should start on ‘Weapons Which Will Make Your Arse a Bit Red if it Catches you Wrong.’

Peter

RE: If humans were extinct

From the little I know, the timeline was a bit slow!

My perspective is that I once rented a flat in a big house in central London. The landlord lived in the house and was very eccentric. He lost the keys to open the doors to the garden, but due to his age or eccentricity would accept no help. I was also busy, and the situation got left. Only every few months did I even have time to look out the back window (I was high up). So we had a totally untended garden, which had been a cut lawn.

To cut the story short, within 5-6 years it was a jungle with thick trees, and -- well, imagine Borneo. We stopped being concerned about burglery from the back, as the garden was impenetrable. You'd need a hatchet and time to get through. It wasn't a big garden, but once someone was heard shouting: a drunk tramp had climbed over into it and was lost and stuck.

It really brought it home to me how fragile "civilization" is, and that in no time we'd be disappeared. I believe in lost civilizations from before, say, 7,000 BC. Well, no wonder we find little trace of them!

Philosophically though, to me nature is here to serve us, though we are here to serve nature as well. Pollution has to stop, but I don't feel on a guilt-trip for being here. I also think it's meant to be that there are 5 or 6 billion of us on Earth right now. That's bound to cause some pollution! We should IMO be cautious and do all we can, but no guilt trip about being human or part of the human race. I reckon it'll all sort itself out. Nature has a way of reasserting itself - but if it does, humanity will survive anyhow. 😉

V