• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Aside from global warming the world as a whole has been steadily improving. I think you are confusing the USA with the rest of the world. Empires collapse, it happens, that doesn’t mean the whole world is on fire.

    • Gloomy@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Aside from global warming

      I get what you are saying. But that improvement has been possible only because of global warming. Today we have more energy (=workforce) at our hands than ever before. This has imported things, but it’s living on bored time Global warming will start to deteriate our world in multiple ways, I fact it is doing so right now.

      A collapse of this system build on sand is a very real possibility. And it is a very real possibility that it will take less than a generation to happen.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        The only thing collapsing is nations that value money more than anything. They don’t fit into the current world, and certainly not in the future.

        If you are so tied to the notion that your worth is based on your wealth, I’m sure you would feel despair.

      • Delta_V@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You’re not wrong, but that’s just growing pains that every technologically capable species goes through. Like every other kind of alien, we have less than 1,000 years to figure out how to move our industry and other energy use and generation off-world before we cook ourselves.