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That would probably require the player species to spend a while in the industrial stage, as in centuries of time. I’d say this would most likely require the player to purposefully stay in the industrial stage for longer for their planet to become uninhabitable, assuming there is enough resources to do it.
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We invented the commercial piston steam engine in the 1600’s.
Human’s are destroying earth. If Thrive is not finished, it will most likely be because humans will extinct ourselves or crash our society back to the dark ages due to environmental destruction. No matter how dedicated the developers are, they need to still have a habitable world with digital computers a functional electrical grid to work on the game.
Human Impact On The Environment
How to Measure Our Impact on the Environment
Holocene Extinction
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Is it really reaching the level of making Earth uninhabitable tho?
I don’t know about where you live, but where I live, greedy corrupt politicians care more about how much money they can make this year then what the economy or world will look like 100 years from now. The world is getting worse faster than many earlier predictions, and it doesn’t seem to me that enough people even acknowledge there is a problem.
The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth
‘A deeply troubling discovery’: Earth may have already passed the crucial 1.5°C warming limit
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
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Humans oftentimes have a hard time following schedules when those are spread over a long period…
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define uninhabitable. It doesn’t have to doom everything, just the clade you belong to.
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Oh, I thought it was supposed to mean that Earth would be cleansed off all life.
Yeah humans are definitely capable of extincting all great apes, including themselves.
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