I fucking hate this. Its all for literally nothing. For fucking money. Money. Imaginary pieces of paper. Even worse, imaginary numbers on a fucking screen. Data. It's all for fucking nothing. We won't avoid the 1.5 C mark, and it might come in 5 years. 2 C would mean basically the end of any semblance of normal, at all, and the collapse of the global south. Forget even 3 degrees, I'd probably already be dead. They won. They fucking won. No revolution in the Imperial Core is possible. Everyone is a chud, or a lib, or a left anticommunist. We can't fucking win. It's over. The world is over. doomjak

  • HamManBad [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I think the veneer of liberal democracy will absolutely collapse in our lifetime. And I'm not so sure that the would-be plantation societies in the imperial core will be able to successfully re subordinate the global south. The periphery just might pull off something special before the full collapse

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      I'm not so sure that the would-be plantation societies in the imperial core will be able to successfully re subordinate the global south.

      One of the perks of living in the US North / Canada is that you've got tons of potable water and some of the last arable land suitable for commercial farming.

      But a glut of desperate laborers combined with a rapacious commercial sector leadership means we'll be doing all our old tricks to these new people.

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I dunno, the US seems really eager to kill all its arable soil with roundup as quickly as possible.

      • GhostofLeninsGhost [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Somewhat. 1/10 Americans depend on the Colorado River for water and that shit is so mismanaged it's likely to go dry.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          1 year ago

          It'll go dry because we keep draining it. But California has had record rainfall this year thanks to that freak west-coast tropical storm.

          Its not like we just don't have any water. Its that we've built a massive irrigation network that sucks it off before it reaches the ocean.