{"id":43099,"date":"2019-01-23T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43099"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:38:08","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-near-term-human-extinction%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43099","title":{"rendered":"The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/23\/the-pros-and-cons-of-near-term-human-extinction\/\">The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Near term human extinction is not all bad. For one thing it\u2019s absolutely free. No need to break the piggy bank. And the whole family can go. It\u2019s gratis. Not only that, but you can even bring your pets. Cat, dog. parrot, termite you name it. No need for special carriers, quarantines, shots, whatever. None of that. Of course don\u2019t expect to find them on the other side, because there is no other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, really good news, all your debts are wiped out. Zippity-doo-dah. Zero. Kiss the student loan, mortgage, credit card bill good-bye. No more vig to the neighborhood henchman. Sayonara. Your balance goes to zero, just like you. Don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s no paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And your boss, that asshole, gone. You\u2019ll never have to kiss his rosy red one again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No more housework. No taking out the garbage, cleaning the frig\u2013 no house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No more having to listen to twaddle about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worries, none. Where\u2019s your daughter? What\u2019s up with sonny boy? Is some jackass going to start a nuclear war? What\u2019s that lump in your unmentionable? How are you going to put food on the table? Forget about it. It\u2019s all wiped clean. Tell me that\u2019s not a great big fat check mark in the plus column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even with all these goodies, I know some of you might feel you should have done something about near term human extinction. You\u2019re guilty, I get it. You just feel bad. \u201cIf only, back in the seventies\u2026 \u201c, you are saying to yourself. You feel you have no right to this windfall. You should have been more responsible. You and the other Baby Boomers, Greatest Generationists, Millennials, Generation Xers, whatever, should have stood up, put your bodies on the line, at least said something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction Near term human extinction is not all bad. For one thing it\u2019s absolutely free. No need to break the piggy bank. And the whole family can go. It\u2019s gratis. Not only that, but you can even bring your pets. Cat, dog. parrot, termite you name it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5493,5710,24090,5715],"class_list":["post-43099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-counterpunch","tag-human-extinction","tag-michael-doliner","tag-near-term-human-extinction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43100,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099\/revisions\/43100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}