Interview 9

JOE M.
AGE: 20
OCCUPATION: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
EDUCATION LEVEL: HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE, PERSUING BACHELORS DEGREE

KM: How do you envision the end of the world?
JM: End of the world as in civilization? Or as in the world as in no living organisms left?
KM: Either one, or both.
JM: Well, considering we’re a being that can tell emotion, time, lifestyle, have instincts and have evolved from previous beings or creatures that didn’t have that, the end of the world would be in two or three million years when man evolves into something else.
KM: What you’re saying then is that the end of humans as we are now will be their next evolutionary step?
JM: It will be the next evolutionary step because like any organism that relies on an ecosystem for survival, ours will diminish and something other than human will take over the next step of what will happen in the world. You have the dinosaurs, the reptiles and seacreatures. In a sense, we’re going to wear out our welcome in the ecosystem. Because technology will only get you so far in the game of life.
KM: No big pandemic will sweep us away, or humans wont nuke eachother or starve, we’ll just simply evolve out of ourseveles?
JM: Yeah, because part of, well, humans will just evolve to a new thing because our habitats and ecosystems will make life harder for people to sustain life the way it is now. Because we’re overgrowing our ecosystem the way that it is it will eventually kill us off as a defense because the ecosystem that we rely on it a greater and more powerful thing that anything that walks it or uses it. And that’s about it.