It's socialism or barbarism, folks. It's increasingly likely we as a species aren't going to get our shit together fast enough to stop our planet from warming 2 degrees, which will have catastrophic effects on sea level rise, food security, and general habitability of vast swaths of populated places.
I spend a lot of time on /r/collapse reading news and discussion to remind me that I'm not the only one freaking out about this. More importantly though, I'm thinking about how to structure my life and prepare in the coming years as shit gets much, much worse.
How are you all coping?
When I get tired of my "dying with the rest of the planet" anxiety I let the "my neighbors will murder me soon" anxiety take over for a bit
Thanks for the suggestions. /r/collapse is a good place to radicalize folks. They're so close.
It's definitely an echo chamber, but there are often opportunities to reach in and turn people
I'm not sure most people will notice to a great degree, tbh. They'll have the sense that things aren't the same as they used to be but disasters and violence will just become more and more normalized.
I cope by overeating and watching tiktok compilations. Hope this helps
We are all doing our best, but at the end of the day whether all of humanity perishes or not, you will die just the same. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I cope by de-mystifying the possibility of dying to climate change related causes. Like, it wouldn't feel different from any other kind of death, and same for climate change related squalor. People just keep going until they can't anymore and you can't resist that process so you just have to decide to flow with it.
That said, /r/collapse is pretty shit, lots of sensationalist blackpilled defeatists with a mixed bag of politics. I followed it for a while but it honestly serves no function but to demoralise you in exchange for a the tiny thrill of reading apocalyptic predictions. The truth is, we don't know for certain what the future holds, and we may be coming upon those days, as Engles said, that are like 20 years embodied.
My conspiratorial take on it, is that the inevitability of it is manufactured by oil baron capitalists. They want us to throw our hands up in the air and resign ourselves to the eventual. They control the discourse so that action on it from the left seems futile.
Probably not entirely true, but I like to think it.
I realize that the world is fucked on dealing with this situation so might as well enjoy your time on this planet while it lasts
I mostly just try not to think about it or console myself with the assurance that Socialism will win, one way or another. And I try to remain determined to do what I can to help bring that future about.
Getting blackpilled is the worst thing you could do, no matter how bleak things look.
I cope by realizing we will exterminate ourselves before climate change gets us.
Right now I'm kinda hoping to be able to get some land up in the mountains and build a community there. I hope we can beat fascism, capitalism, and climate change, but just in case we can't, I want to be able to outlast them
