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I’m gonna wing it.
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At this point I’m just trying to enjoy what I can in my immediate surroundings. When I am outside tending to my critters, I often wonder if today will be the day the sky is filled with a blinding light from the south then a very chaotic and consequential minute or two after that.
But deep down that is probably a fantasy. The world is not that exciting. Instead we get to slowly watch how many people the billionaires can starve as long as we still have a working internet.
I miss the good old days when people were worried because some long dead calendar maker, didn’t bother to prepare the calendar a few hundred years in advance.
They were pretty accurate about when the world would end. It’s just been a slow, gradual end since then.
Maybe that calendar wasn’t the end of the world, just when the end started.
So you mean it was the beginning of the end of the world?
I’m not worried about a pandemic. If scientific experts with no connections to the Republican party say the Hanta virus is low risk to spread, then I trust them.
Not Hanta specifically. The CDC has expexted a pandemic every 5-10 years since 2014
Don’t worry about this pandemic.
But the next one, and the one after that? Maybe worth worrying about. Sooner or later, one that is a high risk will come around. And if it happens within the next 3 years or so, you can count on this regime doing exactly the wrong thing and making it worse than it otherwise would have been. Even if it happens later than that, with a responsible government in charge … there’s only so much that even a good government can do against a truly virulent plague.
Same from scientists with no connections to the Labour party…I think were safe.
Oh, you can forget all of those things. Just get up now and go outside. Take everything in. Because soon it will never be like that ever again. Climate change is going to destroy so much.
Yup. If the infinite growth machine can’t make a profit fixing climate change, it simply won’t be fixed.
No amount of home recycling, power saving, water reduction, etc. you can do will offset the pollution generated by companies in the pursuit of money.
It’s honestly too late to fix most of it. The environment will continue to get worse for at least a few hundred years due to the damage already caused. Even if we stopped all emissions, pollution, habitat destruction, and overexploitation of natural resources today, we will still see catastrophic changes to the ecosphere we evolved in.
90% insect population decline. It’s right there in our faces, and (not) on our windshields. I drive a lot for work and there’s just so few bug splatters compared to 10 years ago or especially compared to 20 or more. I remember 20 years ago a three hour trip this time of year would have your car absolutely plastered with bug guts. Last Friday I drove 10 hours and cleaned my windshield at the end, but it wasn’t because I couldn’t see.
We saw it bounce back during Covid fast. I cant help but think this bullshit is exactly what these oil companies want you to think.
The only thing that really bounced back during covid was air pollution in big cities. Global warming didn’t stop, the polar caps were still melting and the insect population didn’t meaningfully increase again. Less immediate pollution is nice for the people living there, but on a global scale it made next to no difference.
This is all based on actual science that I went to school for, have a degree in, and studied for years afterwards.
Download all seasons of original Top Gear and you’re prepared for anything.
Yeah… In situations like these, you kinda just have to do whatever you can do.
Unless you’re someone with the power to actually influence policy of the country you live in - in which case what the fuck are you doing reading this, fix your shit - then you realistically can’t do jack about these issues.
If you try to fight every battle that’s coming our way, rally behind every issue, you’ll get burnt out - and that’s exactly what those sending them to you want to happen.
There’s nothing we can do individually. But there are a lot of us.
If just 0.1% of us ate one rich person each, we could make huge strides toward solving this problem.
Me, a procrastinator: eh, it can wait
F) Move to a dreamy Mediterranean island in middle of nowhere and worry about nothing. :)
- How many islands do you think there are in the mediterranean?
- How many of those are uninhabited? (And why?)
- Do you realise how close you are to bigger nations there? It’s not that isolated there.
Arrest pedophiles and all our problems would be solved instantly.
Definitely all of the above.
AI takeover causes economic collapse. Economic collapse causes WW3. WW3 causes another pandemic. (And, meanwhile, climate change is slowly destroying the environment, accelerating the economic collapse, worsening the pandemic, and being accelerated by AI and WW3.)
Yep, we’re already last the tipping point. Enjoy what ya got while it still exists because we are fucked
With any luck, a new pandemic will throw a wrench into WWIII.
just about the perfect time to ditch everything and go live in a cave for a couple decades
Caves are overrated. Food is impossible to get without venturing out, electrical power can only be supplied from outside, water can be challenging (especially wastewater removal), the complete lack of light and prevalence of mold can be bad for your health. Even fresh air supply might be a concern in some cases.
Personally, I’m leaning toward a solar-powered sailboat as the perfect ‘ride out the apocalypse’ strategy.
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You can easily relocate to distance yourself from all kinds of threats, avoiding wars, disease outbreaks, etc.
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Water can easily be supplied via desalination ‘water makers’, powered by your solar panels. In the event that this goes wrong somehow, you can also resupply by sailing up into any navigable freshwater river, or build simple evaporation-based solar desalinators.
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Some of your diet can be provided by fishing. For the rest (and occasional repairs and replacement parts), you can barter at ports of call. No matter what’s happening in the world, there will still be people somewhere who are interested in moving passengers and cargo from one port to another. And if global trade is broken down, you may be able to bring valuable barter goods by transporting things that can’t be found locally.
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Waste disposal and sanitation is easy; just dump it overboard before sailing to a new location. (Preferably, you’d only dump biodegradable stuff, though, and only in the open ocean, where environmental effects of small dumping will be negligible. But if there’s no other choice and you really need to dump some plastic waste or something … well, the environment can take one more for the team.)
I know this would probably be hella difficult and often dangerous… But it also sounds fun, cool and punk as fuck lol
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You already live in your bedroom at your parents, harder to get more cave like than that
E ) All of the above.
None of the above. Living in ignorance of things you can’t fix anyway is comfy
