We don't know what causes them exactly. It could be that so called global warming could stall the next ice age which would save our civilisation. That said, killing off lots of us might actually perpetuate humanity and give it a longer existance. Alternatively, global warming might actually cause an ice age. Who knows?

Erm this thread is about U.S. Politics being influenced by religion.

I have already had my say on religious nuttery.

I would undermine the institutions that perpetuate religion. Sadly, politicians are too gutless and self serving to do so.

It was aimed at a poster who told me I was off subject in another thread.

Something akin to nanotechnology. The capacity to influence matter on the atomic scale (i.e. engineering either at the atomic or subatomic level) which would effectively allow anything to be changed into anything else (if you can move protons, electrons and neutrons from one substance to another, you can materially reproduce anything from anything else).

You could turn plastic waste into food, and literal s**t into gold.

The downside of course is that it would be an end to capitalism (given that you'd have no basis of supply and demand), and limitless resources (esp. as you could turn dead bodies into anything else).

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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