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#512 - Will MacAskill - How Long Could Humanity Continue For?

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Is There a Justification for Having a Multiplanetary Society?

We've got those seed banks, right? Thes is it in iceland, i think, or in me swaubar. And that's a bunch of every plant seed on thepla. And presumably there must be equivalent back up,. digitly, of every book, probably, distributed across the world. They'll be in underground bunkers or on the side of a mountain or something like that. If we were to go, if we're to collapse, where would the industrial revolution happen? I can bet you my last dollar it would not happen in western europe because we already used up all the surface coal. But ok, civilization will back up. An this is

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