I'm baked as hell and only just now having it laid out for me how fucked we are. Tell me he's lying to me rn how is everyone so calm about it
One literally cannot overstate how successful the last sixty years of capitalist brainwashing have been to destroy any semblance or even idea of any alternative to capitalism. Everything has been on a downward trajectory for the last sixty years and we have to climb mountains upon mountains to get out of this hole.
When I teach my intro level climate science class, the whole first lecture is dedicated to hammering home just how bad things are, and how much worse they're going to get. I update it every year that I teach the class, and it's a really depressing experience. The lecture is called "Everything is Terrible and Nobody Cares."
I took a climate science class and that was the same messaging. Shit is fucking horrid. I probably think about what I learned in that class every day. Especially, as these climate disasters get worse. It's all very predictable. It was also taught about how it would affect our region and I see it all the time.
No, I've never bothered to record it. I should do that next time around.
But as Kurzgesagt also said, as long as 1% of humanity survives, that's a win for Team Humanity!
spoiler
That 1% would be a bunch of Ted Faros and their immediate minions, broodmares, and security detail fighting over scraps and otherwise languishing in whatever conditions already killed 99% of the rest.
Yeah it's not that bad 1% of us will survive and then the nukes will go off and all plant matter will die, but the 500 humans will find a way to create a new way to manufacture food so not only is everything okay but we're actually moving towards progress
Kurtzgesagt videos aren't just obnoxious; they're cognitohazards that tell liberals all is well and even if it isn't, their billionaire masters will figure it out with or without them.
I'm almost 40 and Ave basically accepted I am probably gonna die in the water wars of 2034. Also I have no kids to worry about so it's a weirdly zenlike feeling.
I am probably gonna die in the water wars of 2034
I tell my students that this is my retirement plan.
when those egyptian cat gods come to pick me up in their canoe. hell yeah, that's my vibe.
Really? curious what gave that impression. I frequently talk about being one of the oldest posters.
Funnily enough, I actually thought you were much older than "almost 40", because of your tendency to call yourself old around here. But it turns out you're probably only a few years older than I am. Thanks, I can feel it in my bones now.
I mean, I'm 34 and while i didn't think you were a zoomer, I didn't think you were older than me tbh
might have been the occasional
discussionsHonestly, no idea. I feel like I generally vibe as "elder millenial" so unless someone mentions being old and I notice..? Probably on me.
Not much that can be said without evoking nihilistic thoughts tbh.
Personaly I thought COVID was a real opportunity and there would be a lot more severe consequences from it, specialy when things were about to hit the cool zone(mass evictions etc) but the world sucessfuly managed to enforce the business as usual rhetoric(even China caved on Zero covid), sweep everything under the rug and move on.
Those who lost family members(despite precations) got fucked. No justice or consequence. This is the preview you need. We will ignore and dismiss as much as possible. Those who revolt or start seeing the problem will become targets. Ecofascism will find the easiest answers and the left is completely unprepared.
The nihilism comes from realizing perhaps we're dead set on this path for some time now, its not a recent change and probably nobody alive today had a real chance of fighting to avoid this fate.
once there were birds who darkened the skies for days as they flew over head.
I mean, predicting the future is going to be spotty... But most scenarios are very bleak.
Its gonna be bad. Not everyone is gonna die but so many will and it will be a very slow decay spanning decades. Humanity will be around for a very long time but the conditions for the majority will be really....... Really bad. Somehow that may even be worse than humanity being wiped out at once. There are people that exaggerate how bad it will be like billions will die by x date or we'll reach 4C by 2050 etc. But the more realistic scenarios are looking tough long term. We should still do everything we can to fight this shit.
Don't see it tbh. Most of the climate models don't seem to indicate that. There'd have to be major rollbacks to all emission cuts we've made and go back on the harmful energy sources for the newables we've made. That said even the path we're on is still gonna lead to a lot of devastation
Kurzgesagt commented on one of BadEmpanada's videos, and they got into a bit of an argument in the replies. Interesting entertainment.
I think a lot of people are in shock, in denial, in bargaining. The most useful bits of grief haven't coalesced yet.
