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6 years ago
Everything we take for granted is going to be ripped out from beneath us.
Every day we have worked or studied is going to be worthless in the dark years that are to come.
Our hopes and dreams will amount to nothing as societal constructs and civilisation collapses around us.
We'll lose contact with many who we love because the means to stay in contact won't exist anymore, or they won't.
I'm not talking about 30 years from now. I'm talking about 10 or less.
There are too many things that can go horrifically wrong with the world. It doesn't matter who you are or where you're from, it doesn't matter if you're in a third world country or a prepper or in the 1%, we will all be as fucked as anyone else.
Money can't save us from nukes.
A roof over your head can't save us from "natural" disasters (that are actually caused by humans destroying the fucking planet).
No amount of medication can save us from every possible disease.
Our neighbours won't save us; they'll be looking after themselves.
The military and police won't save us; they'll be looking after themselves.
Governments certainly won't save us.
Billionaires sure as fuck won't save us.
No amount of survival training can save us because it's impossible to know in what way it'll all go down the shitter. There are too many possible scenarios:
Climate change causing social collapse?
Mutually assured destruction?
Technological singularity leads to AI destroying us all?
Impact of a massive enough asteroid?
Yellowstone erupts?
Don't believe me? Just check the doomsday clock.
If we're "lucky" enough to survive the start of any of these situations? How are we going to feed ourselves when there's nothing on the supermarket shelves and it's too dangerous to go outside?
Ok, so maybe you live in the countryside out of harm's way, comparatively. There will be no power, thus no internet, no technology, and not even any running water. What's that going to be like to live like that after having had access to it for so long we take it for granted? Will it drive us mad not knowing whether those we care about are even alive, because we have no means to get hold of them? (I understand one might have lived without such conveniences and it'd be ignorant to assume otherwise, but please bare with me and keep in mind, any device like the one you are using to read this right now would be among the losses)
I think climate change is going to screw us over sooner and harder than most media would have us think. You don't have to dig much to find papers (much better written than this journal) that indicate this, for example: https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf which looks at decades of climate research and the way things are going, and is written by a guy with a fucking PhD.
In Europe, thousands of students have skipped school to protest climate change, I commend and admire them for it and wish I could be among those that make a stand. It makes me wonder why my own generation didn't start such things, I like to think I'd have joined them. It feels too late for me, I can no longer depend on my parents to provide a home for me when I inevitably lost my job just for missing a day of work. It's saddening that it's had to reach this point, and that generation will be growing up fully aware of how shit the world is going to become.
So what's the solution? As the paper above suggests, adaptation. I suspect many will try and fail to do so, myself included, with agonizing and deadly results. All my years of learning how to write software and make anything else with technology will be utterly and completely meaningless when shit hits the fan, so I don't expect to last long. Until then, all that can be done is to try and prepare for we don't even know what exactly, because we can't predict the future, and otherwise try to make the most of what we have left of our lives before existence becomes miserable (or even more so) for us.
"Sometimes we reach a point where we just can't see ahead of ourselves anymore.
We all believe we're on some sort of road anyway, right?
You know that little path that you cooked up inside your head, that you tricked yourself into believing, that if you somehow follow it, maybe your whole life will work out for you in the end, right?
Now tell me, what's going to happen the next time when you wake up, and it just isn't there anymore?
You're gonna have no fuckin' idea where to take your next step. You won't even know if you should make one or not.
You see at that point, you're gonna have to take a look at yourself. And what you're gonna find is, that that decision doesn't even matter anymore."
- Bruce Moallem, AKA God Body Disconnect
The Dark Mountain Project: https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/
Every day we have worked or studied is going to be worthless in the dark years that are to come.
Our hopes and dreams will amount to nothing as societal constructs and civilisation collapses around us.
We'll lose contact with many who we love because the means to stay in contact won't exist anymore, or they won't.
I'm not talking about 30 years from now. I'm talking about 10 or less.
There are too many things that can go horrifically wrong with the world. It doesn't matter who you are or where you're from, it doesn't matter if you're in a third world country or a prepper or in the 1%, we will all be as fucked as anyone else.
Money can't save us from nukes.
A roof over your head can't save us from "natural" disasters (that are actually caused by humans destroying the fucking planet).
No amount of medication can save us from every possible disease.
Our neighbours won't save us; they'll be looking after themselves.
The military and police won't save us; they'll be looking after themselves.
Governments certainly won't save us.
Billionaires sure as fuck won't save us.
No amount of survival training can save us because it's impossible to know in what way it'll all go down the shitter. There are too many possible scenarios:
Climate change causing social collapse?
Mutually assured destruction?
Technological singularity leads to AI destroying us all?
Impact of a massive enough asteroid?
Yellowstone erupts?
Don't believe me? Just check the doomsday clock.
If we're "lucky" enough to survive the start of any of these situations? How are we going to feed ourselves when there's nothing on the supermarket shelves and it's too dangerous to go outside?
Ok, so maybe you live in the countryside out of harm's way, comparatively. There will be no power, thus no internet, no technology, and not even any running water. What's that going to be like to live like that after having had access to it for so long we take it for granted? Will it drive us mad not knowing whether those we care about are even alive, because we have no means to get hold of them? (I understand one might have lived without such conveniences and it'd be ignorant to assume otherwise, but please bare with me and keep in mind, any device like the one you are using to read this right now would be among the losses)
I think climate change is going to screw us over sooner and harder than most media would have us think. You don't have to dig much to find papers (much better written than this journal) that indicate this, for example: https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf which looks at decades of climate research and the way things are going, and is written by a guy with a fucking PhD.
In Europe, thousands of students have skipped school to protest climate change, I commend and admire them for it and wish I could be among those that make a stand. It makes me wonder why my own generation didn't start such things, I like to think I'd have joined them. It feels too late for me, I can no longer depend on my parents to provide a home for me when I inevitably lost my job just for missing a day of work. It's saddening that it's had to reach this point, and that generation will be growing up fully aware of how shit the world is going to become.
So what's the solution? As the paper above suggests, adaptation. I suspect many will try and fail to do so, myself included, with agonizing and deadly results. All my years of learning how to write software and make anything else with technology will be utterly and completely meaningless when shit hits the fan, so I don't expect to last long. Until then, all that can be done is to try and prepare for we don't even know what exactly, because we can't predict the future, and otherwise try to make the most of what we have left of our lives before existence becomes miserable (or even more so) for us.
"Sometimes we reach a point where we just can't see ahead of ourselves anymore.
We all believe we're on some sort of road anyway, right?
You know that little path that you cooked up inside your head, that you tricked yourself into believing, that if you somehow follow it, maybe your whole life will work out for you in the end, right?
Now tell me, what's going to happen the next time when you wake up, and it just isn't there anymore?
You're gonna have no fuckin' idea where to take your next step. You won't even know if you should make one or not.
You see at that point, you're gonna have to take a look at yourself. And what you're gonna find is, that that decision doesn't even matter anymore."
- Bruce Moallem, AKA God Body Disconnect
The Dark Mountain Project: https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/
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