Let's face it, 1.5 is dead. And unless a miracle happens, we'll shoot past 2 degrees in the next ten or fifteen years. After that, with climate feedbacks, tipping points, and cascading effects, 3 degrees of warming or even higher is probable by the end of this century.
That can mean only one thing. A collapse of our fragile, tenuous, global industrial civilization. It might happen gradually, it might happen suddenly, but it will happen and it will be catastrophic.
Our rulers know about this. And yet they've chosen to do nothing. Or, actually, they've chosen to go all in, pushing for increased consumption, stronger economic growth, and even more fossil fuel use — because it's incredibly profitable. 💵 💵 💵
So, what can you and I do?
Jem Bendell says our best choice is to accept what is happening to our world, embrace the collapse, and turn our efforts toward what comes next. He says: "We’re going to collapse into community, and what we can play for is what we find there when it’s all we have."
#History #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
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in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •This year, global warming is already 1.59C above the preindustrial average.
(Chart from Zeke Hausfather, arrow added by me.)
ORIGINAL ➡️ fediscience.org/@hausfath/1135…
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in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •[...] Eine Erwärmung von 3 Grad oder sogar mehr bis zum Ende dieses Jahrhunderts [ist] wahrscheinlich.
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Jem Bendell sagt, dass unsere beste Wahl darin besteht, zu akzeptieren, was mit unserer Welt geschieht, den Zusammenbruch anzunehmen + unsere Bemühungen auf das zu richten, was als Nächstes kommt."
lifeworth.com/DeepAdaptation-d…
Aus Jem Bendells "Deep Adaptation" (Tiefenanpassung):
Chris Haynes
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in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •Well worth a read.
(And maybe someone will find a link to the full audio?)
I struggled to get past "ecolibertarian" and "What’s coming is bad, but it’s not all bad" but I'm glad I did. And with the #Manosphere raging, "ecolibertarian" is at least better than "Muskian QAnon incel".
Seeing a small chance of a #CollapseIntoCommunity paradox.
But probably there isn't really.
#JemBendell
Sine Says Free🇵🇸Palestine🇵🇸
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •They're converts of the neoliberal church of ever greater consumption to "grow the economy"
They know no other way to have an "economy"
They don't understand limits to growth+dont care
There's another way, it requires critical thinking, a mental faculty politicians are incapable of
The only way for the solution to be enacted is a full scale global revolt against our collective idiot leaders
Yeah, yeah, not happening
whatever
But it's the only way
ObsolescentSapien
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •Jerry D. Harris 🦕👣
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Unknown parent • • •Kid Mania
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •"... [your] best choice is to accept what is happening to our world, embrace the collapse, and turn our efforts toward what comes next..."
In short, stop having kids unless you don't mind them growing up in a real life version of Mad Max. And with heavily armed MAGATs running around you just know the rednecks are going to be running your neighborhood, right?
Stop having more people.
"...Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone."
- Thomas Ligotti
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Unknown parent • • •Pēteris Krišjānis
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •Also we have zero clue what is to come. Nothing good. We just don't know how much worse things will get.
Plsik (born in 320 ppm)
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •Yeah, and kleptocrats aren't just stupid. They think it's good for them personally. They don't care about the rest of the people.
Christiaan Jacobs
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •I wonder if western societies will outlive long enough to reach that point. The speed at which our democracies are being torn down by fascist movements. And once they succeed, the chaos that results will slash economies, and especially the energy spilling international trade.
Not a prediction but a nightmare. But it would not really surprise me...
Melissa B
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •Franceska Mann
Unknown parent • • •This is late stage capitalism & it will kill us all unless it is stopped.