“if we’re lucky”
World War III was the last of Earth’s three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053.
It resulted in the deaths of some 30% of the Human population, at least six hundred million people, and the extinction of six hundred thousand species of animals and plants. By the end, most of the major cities had been destroyed and there were few governments left.
“The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.” - Alen Cohen
We might still have to go through something akin to the Bell Riots, but if we could just skip over the WWIII bit and the Eugenics Wars while still reaching a “no money, socialist utopia”, then I think I can live with it.
How to get earth into a post-scarcity world?
to start we almost 100% have to all be in alignment for the most part so that means a one world government for and by the people which cannot be upended by bad actors.
How to get people to work together you might ask?
I think it is through a system like this consensus engine where people can find common ground in their discussion.
from that link, "Define goals and work towards them.
The system can be used to lay out a plan. This plan can be made by those in a certain group or
community. The group can explain their reasons for doing making the plan. The goal itself and
methods of achieving it can be decided on by the users. Detailed lists of steps including sub-steps as
far down as needed, coupled with potential ways for derailment of plan, and ways to deal with those
possibilities are made and voted on. Input can be gathered from everyone or only the town/club/group
hosting the idea and can result in a robust and long lasting plan set into action. "
When Sisko finally embraced the Hawk inside him, i knew shit was about to hit the fan. And hell, they didn’t disappoint.
Hold the phone. There were only something like 2,000,000,000 humans in the Star Trek Universe when WWII kicked off? Man they underestimated population growth.
Except weirdly we know from canon that San Francisco, and Paris came out of it more or less unscathed, which seems unlikely.
In the grand scheme of things… Is 600,000 species of flora and fauna a big number or a small number? IRL, I mean. Obviously in the fiction it’s a very small number.
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-species-are-there
TL.DR, there are ~2 million known species of animals. There are probably more of plants, and apparently nobody cares about fungus or other kingdoms of life. So, it’s a big dent, but the number looks even small in a worst-case scenario WW3.
I remember there being around 30,000 animal species threatened by extinction, but I have no idea when or from where I heard that.
