• Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    I am also unsure if the world is ending. The last generation of humans may already be alive. They may already be adults with college degrees. Mad Max is fine to watch on screen, but would be a horrifying reality to live in.

    I do not want to subject people to the upcoming WW3.

    • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]M
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      2 months ago

      Humanity is going to survive, perhaps in small isolated pockets that never reach the potential capitalism squandered.

      That being said, if I were to have a kid I’d be taking on the burden of finding a way to set them up for a good life. I don’t see a good life in near to mid term future for anyone not extremely lucky in birth circumstance.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Humanity is going to survive, perhaps in small isolated pockets that never reach the potential capitalism squandered.

        The neoliberal propaganda known as "Kurzgesagt" said that if 99% of humanity is wiped out, that's still a "win" for Team Humanity(tm). The propaganda declined to state what the planetary conditions would look like for that 1% but assumed everything would be fine after that.

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Seriously , if Kurzgesagt actually thinks that I’m absolutely disgusted, that sounds like Hitler particles shit right there.

          EDIT: disregard the stuff I said about Stalin’s quote. I double checked it and apparently that quote wasn’t even something he actually said.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            if Kurzgesagt actually thinks that I’m absolutely disgusted, that sounds like Hitler particles shit right there.

            The words Kurzgesagt said were something about a "win for team humanity" with even a 1% human survival total during some industry-driven environmental collapse. There was some weapons-grade hopium about how wonderful it'd be for "team humanity" to live on with whatever killed the other 99% on so poisoned a planet.

            • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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              2 months ago

              I think Kurzgesagt is the best example of what happens when an educational youtube channel gets big. They've gone from interesting science content to pure neoliberal propaganda machine.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      The world is closer to ended than ending. More than half of complex macroscopic life is already dead or replaced by monoculture/livestock. Today's fossil record would lbe considered post extinction event to future alien paleontologists.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      The last generation of humans may already be alive

      Would you mind elaborating?

      • kittin [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Some of you are alright don’t come to earth tomorrow

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        The end of human civilization may be occurring within our lifetime. So children born today may be fighting in wars over water or killed in nuclear attacks twenty years from now. They may not be able to survive these events. Meaning, they won't have children of their own.

        If the damage is severe enough, the human population might bottleneck to where we won't have enough genetic diversity to repopulate the earth. Sort of like how cheetahs are going extinct because they're all born with the same genetic disorder and there aren't any cheetahs without it.