It's ironic that the indigenous of the Americas were considered primitive by the invaders, but it's only taken Westerners a little over two centuries to trash the place.

I think we need to shift towards a more communal living where we look after each other, but like with a real commune, learn to deal effectively with the goldilocks, freeloaders, and users. Like within a family... everyone can do something.

We have so much surplus labor, every city should look as sparkling as Disneyland Main St.

Some of us are. The rest are conservatives.

Sadly accurate.

"I'm tired of this back-slappin' isn't humanity neat bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."

~ Bill Hicks

Just finished the Westworld series where this turned out to be the main theme.

Generally, I dont' think humans are anywhere near as smart as they think they are.

Scientists were well aware of climate change 50 years ago. Carter had an energy plan to get us off of fossil fuels, but Reagan trashed it. Now, we are starting to see the first effects. Wild fires, Droughts, floods, increased mutations of viruses and bacteria, and the migration of tropical diseases.

That is only the beginning of what climate change will do. From here things will only get worse, and I'd say a very optimistic best case scenario would be only losing about 20% of the world's population from famines and diseases. It is not totally unlikely that is will actually go so far as to cause a total human extinction.

The collapse of our current civilization seems certain. If it comes with nuclear war, the destruction wrought would keep Humanity in check for a while. Either way, those that are left will need to adapt to a planet with a much more hostile climate. After the apocalypse, the time require to rebuild a technological base will likely include a focus on evolving ourselves through eugenics and enhanced neural development, both in utero and thereafter. The real challenge will be to develop a society that focuses on emotional health.

I don't see AI as being anything that people could interface with directly. Nor do I see AI as achieving anything more than mimicry. AI could push our technology forward with non-human derived inventions.

Notably, the number of non-living aliens ("robots" ) reported from UFOs is quite low, but not non-zero.

We are not.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The sooner we wipe ourselves out, the better.

Yes