I'm having an r/collapse induced depression rn. Not helped by the fact the Amazon forests just became CO2 releasing and dozens of ecosystems are just collapsing in Australia.

The future looks bleak. I'll probably live to see the worst of it. Am sad, how do you cope?

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Pascal's Wager but for climate change. Having a sick garden is sweet not matter what.

    • Vostok [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      As bad as I imagine them future will be, this isn't the end for humans. It will certainly be the end for many people, particularly in those areas already borderline for human habitation and even more so for those people in those areas that also happen to be within developing countries.

      We will see huge migration flows from these areas to the north and south where the climate is still liveable, and will see substantial reductions in the volume of food produced. This will lead to bread riots and the like, but it's not like we don't already produce far more food than we need, we just waste most of it so I imagine food prices will rise and more of the 'damaged' produce will make it to shelves.

      We'll probably also see a reassessment of what technology is needed to produce goods and a dramatic fall in the production of new products, made of purpose built components with a much larger share of both the products made and the tools used to make them being made of repurposed/reclaimed components.

      It won't be an easy change and the who thing will be stained with blood as the capitalists won't let these changes happen without kicking and screaming, but in the end I hope it will work out for the best?