China is literally mining the moon for a rare element called Helium 3 that “could solve humanitys energy crisis for the next 10,000 year” utilising fusion technology (Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program)
I am very skeptical any of that will make any difference.
Climate change is the only threat that matters and nothing will be done until it is too late. The best countries like China can do is mitigation and on that area they'll fare better for some time. The problem is there is no mitigating 4 degrees warming.
That [insert miracle technology here] could "save the world's energy problems" is hopium in general because IMO it assumes that the problem with capitalism is that we don't already have clean and renewable energy sources that could save the planet. The "energy crisis" isn't an energy crisis it is a fundamental contradiction of capitalism i.e damage to society and the environment doesn't matter only profits.
Think of it like this, the more time we waste the more drastic measures will be needed. At some point the measures will have to be so drastic(e.g ban all fossil fuel usage) that it guarantees these necessary drastic actions wont happen.
Unless someone snaps their finger and makes everyone agree on climate change action tomorrow there is little hope in waiting for the next magical solution.
I'm very, very familiar with the collapse community and how they view the world and if I'm totally honest if their ideology resonated with me at all I'd just go blow my brains out (like so many collapse people do)
It's a very bleak, hand wringing ideology that offers nothing to anyone so I'll just say I disagree. On the eve of the Russian revolution (1913-1917) there was a foreboding sense of doom amongst the middle classes. All poetry took on a bleak tone, artists became absolutely nihilistic and hedonistic and all sorts of end of the world scenarios were propagated amongst the middle classes because they understood Tsarism was dying but didn't realise something else was being born.
In the 80s it was the spectre of nuclear war as USSR died
Doomerism in US is just another manifestation of this inability to cope with the collapse of US empire.
Which is why (US)doomers don't believe anything can be done to change humanitys course
I am very skeptical any of that will make any difference.
Climate change is the only threat that matters and nothing will be done until it is too late. The best countries like China can do is mitigation and on that area they'll fare better for some time. The problem is there is no mitigating 4 degrees warming.
That [insert miracle technology here] could "save the world's energy problems" is hopium in general because IMO it assumes that the problem with capitalism is that we don't already have clean and renewable energy sources that could save the planet. The "energy crisis" isn't an energy crisis it is a fundamental contradiction of capitalism i.e damage to society and the environment doesn't matter only profits.
Think of it like this, the more time we waste the more drastic measures will be needed. At some point the measures will have to be so drastic(e.g ban all fossil fuel usage) that it guarantees these necessary drastic actions wont happen. Unless someone snaps their finger and makes everyone agree on climate change action tomorrow there is little hope in waiting for the next magical solution.
I'm very, very familiar with the collapse community and how they view the world and if I'm totally honest if their ideology resonated with me at all I'd just go blow my brains out (like so many collapse people do)
It's a very bleak, hand wringing ideology that offers nothing to anyone so I'll just say I disagree. On the eve of the Russian revolution (1913-1917) there was a foreboding sense of doom amongst the middle classes. All poetry took on a bleak tone, artists became absolutely nihilistic and hedonistic and all sorts of end of the world scenarios were propagated amongst the middle classes because they understood Tsarism was dying but didn't realise something else was being born.
In the 80s it was the spectre of nuclear war as USSR died
Doomerism in US is just another manifestation of this inability to cope with the collapse of US empire.
Which is why (US)doomers don't believe anything can be done to change humanitys course