The heatwave in my area and the one on the opposite side of the country has me spooked. It feels like shit is speeding up and within a few years I'm going to look back on 2021 as the good times. :doomer:

  • Ahh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Big mood, there was a 115 degree day where I live recently and I've kind of given up hope anything is going to be done about climate change at all

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      What sends me into an absolute panic is that we're going to hand off fixing climate change to bozos like Musk and Bezos, we're going to fool ourselves that big tech will fix it and it's going to backfire spectacularly I'm sure.

      • Ahh [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        God thinking of the shit they're going to try to "fix" it is pretty bleak

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I'm sure they're going to push out some shit that will put a band-aid on the problem, probably buying us a little time, if it works, just long enough to get everything set up to leave earth for a space colony or mars.

          • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Personally I doubt they’ll even do that. They’ve got enough wealth to push out a PR piece every six months to look like they’re doing something. Rest of the time will still be spent living in luxury, and once they die it won’t matter, world ends with them as far as they’re concerned.

            If you’ve got $100 billion to spend over the remaining 40 years of your life why would you care about the little people anymore?

              • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Pretty much this.

                I don’t even think the future will be that “glamorous” for billionaires either. We don’t have the infrastructure or tech for these fucks to run off into space. Most will die with no regrets in their walled compounds, a few might die from random suicide bombings etc. The coolest we’ll get is stacking burning tires in front of bunker air intakes and butchering a few as they emerge.

                • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  It just floors me how us, the rabble, are expected to lay down and die. Neoliberalism is a fuck and has poisoned our minds. Jesus, how is there not constant riots and political upheaval over this?

                    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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                      3 years ago

                      Logging off just isn’t an option when you have no other community to fill the voids in your life.

                      This reminds me of something that black red guard on youtube once said, about how you have to get everyday people in your life, not just online, talking about socialism. I guess I have a bit of hope in how much leftism has made a comeback in the states, at least online, a lot of people are talking about it, enough to get the right nervous.

          • SoyViking [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I don't think the space stuff is a realistic option. Whatever the capitalists do to fuck up earth, dealing with our is going to be several orders of magnitude easier than making Mars inhabitable for humans.

            All the Mars shit is just five year old L. Ron Musk playing space with real rockets.

    • black_mold_futures [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I’ve kind of given up hope anything is going to be done about climate change at all

      "we've tried nothing and we're all out of options!" but were you ever actually hoping for anything to begin with? The left has no goals except politely asking Exxon Mobile to be more greenwashed and woke