Our tepid response to another existential threat called the climate crisis suggests that this may be our reality.
The developed world can keep up the facade for a while, but the ship is sinking. Humanity is tough, people will go on, but organized society will suffer.
People will either crack under this pressure or become flexible at interpreting and deflecting it. Some will be able to hide in the gaps not knowing, some are already crushed. Developing countries will be crushed faster, but desperation, thirst, hunger and violence will spiral out. People will start to cling to illusions even more. The downturn will create localized upturns, consuming of what's left, but even that will fizzle out.
So yeah, pretty much an existential threat to organized society, the planet will be fine eventually.
We're like a frog in water that's slowly being heated. It's never quite urgent enough to jump out.
I get the impression that they're doing something novel here; there's something about "bolide fragmentation". But that takes up about half a sentence in the abstract; everything else seems to be telling us what we already knew about the dangers of asteroids.
Can somebody give me a better abstract of their paper?
