Source Feed: The George Tsakraklides View
Published: 2026-07-09 07:27:30
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As biologists witness species in their billions already migrate across the globe in search of habitable environments, I can’t help but predict that the same will happen with humans very soon. Millions of people have already been crossing borders for decades now, escaping the climate crisis-induced economic catastrophes already inflicted by industrial civilisation. Multiples of this number will soon migrate simply to avoid imminent death, as wet bulb temperatures are reached. This is a very different type of migration both in terms of scale and substance. It is now simply existential.
Of course, the difference between humans and other species is that we have technology. We don’t need to go anywhere. We can stay put in Kuwait or Dubai, where people spend their day moving from one air-conditioned building to another while everything fries outside. Food is either imported or grown indoors under controlled environmental conditions. These humans already live in the uninhabitable zone. As even more of this planet becomes unliveable, our reliance on technology will cross new terrifying thresholds where the human species becomes incredibly vulnerable to extinction. AI agents will control our temperature. Robots will do our outdoor work. Farm machines will replace workers. In an uninhabitable planet, our very basic needs will be wholly dependent on algorithms. It is not difficult to imagine why this means game over, for any species.
Of course, this is the rosy scenario. Because the UK won’t allow 1 billion Indians to enter its borders, even though it started the industrial revolution that started the climate crisis centuries ago. We may be on a war with the climate of this planet, but the wars we wage on each other as 8 billion humans fight over limited available habitable space, will probably make the climate crisis look like a blip. After all, this is what happens when you enclose almost every type of organism in a jar: they starve, and then begin to eat each other.
And yet again, we will most likely turn to technology even more fervently: this time not to produce our food or run our AC units, but to program the agents who will do our wars for us, as intelligent drone armies decimate civilisation on a global scale. An own goal beyond comprehension. As electricity generation infrastructure becomes everyone’s geopolitical Achilles Heel, there won’t be a need for genocide. Just hit the power plants and everyone dies of heat shock within hours. We are entering the age of the perfect technological storm where we no longer use technology as a tool, but have become the favourite pet of technology instead. Once it gets bored with our shenanigans, it will simply turn off the life support. So many people naively think that AI can be “unplugged”, and this is precisely why eventually it will be us, not AI, who is violently yanked out of the socket without warning.
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