Sorry about the link to Reddit but it's interesting to see some of the mask off now going on with climate change and also the reaction to it by redditors (especially on collapse which can flip back and forth between good to completely trash takes).
In the reddit thread I like how people are talking about how these rich vampires will die like the rest of us in the hell they created. Be it locals saying fuck it and torching their bunkers or the people they brought down with them just overthrowing them when the rich refuse to do any actual labor. When things truly fall apart I have to wonder what they'll be feeling, will they finally feel fear when they realize they have to live alone in a shitty bunker under the ground? They might be building luxury bunkers with all the security amenities they want, but when that security decides that the lazy overindulgent mouths are too much to feed, what do they do then?
Inside the command room of the Bezos bunker, 1 day after the collapse:" I'm a God! How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence!"
:the-gunman: :lord-bezos-amused: :speech-l: ¨
:stalin-gun-1:
:lenin-sleeping:
Alternatively, it's just the scene where Bane kills Ben Mendelsohn
The rich assume that they'll be able to coast on their wealth. They're mostly right.
Climate Change
Humanity: "Pee-SHAW!"
Fascism
Humanity: "Pee-SHAW!"
A single black lesbian feeling an ounce of joy in her life
Humanity: "DIE DIE DIE!"
Are we as a species too stupid for our own good?
Nah I just think we got hijacked by one of the worst viral memes known to man, capitalism that always slides into fascism.
Always remember that both of those things keeps people from otherwise blaming the first thing on the people who literally have all of the money.
:lord-bezos-amused: :capitalist-laugh: :libertarian-approaching:
You ever see that movie about the wasteland? War of the wasteland warriors or something with an angry man named max gibson?
Given uncertainty around feedback loops and tipping points like arctic methane / clathrates, deforestation, and ecosystem collapse, it's not really possible to accurately say exactly how bad it could get, but 3.5 alone is already pretty catastrophic in terms of moving large densely inhabited areas of the planet, particularly South Asia and the tropics, in the direction of being close to if not completely uninhabitable, with migration crises likely on the order of at least hundreds of millions of people.
On average a 10-15 degree farenhiet temperature shift for lots of regions, mass desertification in some areas, mass wetlands encroaching as coastlines rise or permafrost melts (Alaska for instance is already seeing issues with melting permafrost destroying house foundations all abruptly).
The TLDR: not really good.
Reading this kind of stuff always make me feel depressed and hopeless. Like how much time do I have before every day is a struggle just to live?
It'll probably be even faster with me living in the hottest region of my country. It's already 37 degrees (98 degrees for Americans) in our winter. I'll give it a generous five years before I'm either forced to move to the much cooler coast or leave the country altogether.
I hate to admit it, but every day that goes by, I feel myself inching away from communism into full anprim doomerism.
I know the feeling. I keep wanting to just laugh at all the people who deserve to suffer, then I remember all the people who don't deserve to suffer getting dragged along with them.
