Planet of the Humans

Yes, the movie now free on You Tube and, actually, other places.

Nobody's fixing this.

There is no clean source of energy to replace fossil fuels.

(No, nukes are not at all clean.)

There is no happy ending.

The idea of Mr. Gibbs that the corruption of the environmental movement is down to capitalism - as though socialism or communism or something would not have been capable of such - is silly.

Their idea that humanity just has to "get itself under control" to somehow manage a soft landing for a human population far too large to survive the coming energy famine and somehow wind down the good times of the fossil fuel age is also silly.

We're going to crash and burn.

And maybe a mad virus that spreads like Covid-19 and kills like Ebola will do it after two or three consecutive runs round the globe.

And, anyway, quite apart from all that, neither humanity nor planet Earth nor our solar system nor the milky way nor indeed the universe as a whole is forever.

Humans will eventually go extinct in the face of some challenge they cannot overcome and may not even understand.

This is a fact sensible, educated people have lived with for a couple of centuries, and most pre-scientific cultures did not envision humanity living continuously over the future forever, either.

Why does anybody think not only that people will freak at that idea but that they should?

Oddly it seems like lots and lots of people think that.

Why are they right - not that people should freak but that they will?