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  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    How about Yanks start insulating their homes, then? The US has the highest per capita usage not because it objectively needs the most energy, but because it expends it the most recklessly. Living conditions will have to change substantially to survive human habitat destruction - anything else is utopian anyway.

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      4 years ago

      It really does seem like human existence is pretty much just downhill from here no matter what, materially speaking. Shit seems like a choice between the faster apocalypse or slower one to me.

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        4 years ago

        The later we get on with transition, the worse it's going to be, for sure. However, I can say for myself that I live pretty comfortably in a well-insulated, AC-less apartment and it gets to 40°C here and over in summer. That's 104°F

        • 389aaa [it/its]
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          4 years ago

          Oh yeah I mean, I'm not doubting that properly insulated houses work just fine, it's just that the whole topic kinda got me thinkin about that shit. Just generally feels like humanity fuckin bonked it's head on the great filter pretty bad. And we don't even get a cool apocalypse like nuclear war or something, just very slow planet getting increasingly fucked.

          • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I mean... If it is any consolation, I believe all-out war for resources is a likely outcome of global consciousness reaching any kind of "this habitat is fucked for real, we need to scramble to survive"-kinda stage.

            • 389aaa [it/its]
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              4 years ago

              Lmao yeah that's fair. Would be more interesting, at least. Either way, I'll continue to hope for a stupid pseudoposadist alien ex machina to keep myself sane until the hammer drops.

              • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I guess we all cope in different ways. Still hope the dolphins just start wrecking shit tbh ;(

                • 389aaa [it/its]
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                  4 years ago

                  Entirely valid hope! I mostly lean into alien shit for coping just because I legitimately do think that there's something to UFO reports, and IMO the ET hypothesis is probably the most likely one given the current publicly available evidence, which, granted, doesn't prove much more than that UFOs are (probably) real, physical objects.