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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5295173" data-attributes="member: 177">You speak as if you have an option to be otherwise.  On the species-scale, if and when you can make an argument that humanity is trying to take control of the gun, or somesuch, then maybe you'll have a point.  Right now, I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate that we're doing anything other than trying to shove a sixth bullet into the chamber.As for individuals, there's a very simple problem of not being able to predict what the circumstances will be, leading to an inability to prepare.  Do you prepare for ice-age conditions, or heat and decade-long drought?  Are you going to need to be far inland, to avoid rising seas, or will you need to be near shore to get rain and seafood resources?  What kinds of plants (if any) will grow in your new environs?  What kind of animals can you keep?  You don't know, and unless you're Bill Gates you probably don't have the resources to prepare for everything.  If you cannot prepare for everything, you have to guess, and we are back to roulette, rather than fitness.And that's ignoring the usual risk-assessment issue of spending resources preparing for low-probability events - which generally turns out to be a dumb idea.</blockquote>