Must resist Thanos joke...
If you could redesign the Earth the way you want with a snap.
- Thread starter Gingerbread Demon
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Upside-down and rotate backwards.
I'd take the United States in 1985 and move the American people and our infrastructure to a parallel Earth identical to this one, but with no humans on it. 1985 America plus an empty Earth to expand into. That would mean a world population of about 240 million at the kickoff.
The rest of the current 1985 Earth could just go its happy way- without America.
The rest of the current 1985 Earth could just go its happy way- without America.
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Hmmm… I’d give Earth a post-scarcity society to give rise to better things.
Sounds like an awesome book or movie, an fictional Earth where every trace of land north of the Equator are megacities like on Coruscant, while south of the equator, all one find is nomads living in huts and migrating in search of food.
What would the USSR do? Where would the border be between Canada and Mexico?
If the USA was the only nation on Earth there would be nobody to worry about borders.
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What?
What?
Yes a typo I meant "only nation" and corrected it
Now if the USA was the only nation on Earth
Oh yes, they would. Americans would carve it up into new borders and fuck it up.
How do you fit 195 stars on one flag?
Because that would only repair some of the damage humans have already done to the planet.
Not at all, I'm just consistently disgusted by the way we've treated this planet.Self-loathing much, JD?
The USE?
Pretty much, yeah.
I mean... It's kind of become the whole point of the place, so...There sure is a lot of slang for money!
Anyway, not to get all Thanos, but in a snap planetary redesign... 8 billion of merely one kind of land ape everywhere, overtaking countless in its wake, seems well, exorbitant for a number of reasons. So, any redesign of Earth resets the clock back to just after the Pleistocene ice age ends, & civilizations begin creeping up, & in that Earth redesign is a humanity redesign that puts a natural cap on how much it thinks it needs to consume (Which is probably where we'll get anyway, one way or another)
Apart from that, I can imagine a bit better of a more stable tectonic situation, & magma displacement process. If the overall point of the thing is to support both waterborne & landlocked life, it seems a bit counterintuitive to be internally wiping some of those out on the regular. If the life on it is of any consequence at all, the sloughing process could use some tweaks imho. Sometimes, it seems the balance of the thing in both architecture & living action is frankly, savage.... TBH, that's why Darwinism is apparently the going dealio... it would seem.
Just for a minute there, I kinda liked think of the United States as a planet!
However, to your point, we would probably still find a way to create borders.
Just out of curiosity, why America circa 1985?
I'd hate to have been 15 at that time and have my whole world upended.
Especially if it occurred while my family and I were spending the summer of '85 in Great Britain.
Imagine all those Americans traveling, living abroad with no country to return to.
