mood
Me just trying to survive long enough to see a girl in the mirror
The ultimate victory is living well.
Maybe try looking harder next time. I think you’ll find she’s already there.
This needs to be a ladybeard meme.
Dont forget the trans panic, they always need an issue to pit everyone against.
Remember that Rest is Resistance
ccan I… eat the rich 🥺
Always. Now and Forever :).
world’s been on the brink of ending my entire 45+ years. Kinda hope it happens here.
Its a slow burn. Itll just get worse and worse until we doing something about the ruling class or fade into a cold dark oblivion made of our own hubris.
As of right now, climate change and pollution are legitimately unfixable problems in my opinion. Everything else could hypothetically be fixed (although most of it probably won’t be), but those two are really going to fuck us over.
climate change and pollution are legitimately unfixable problems in my opinion
The Late Devonian mass extinction was likely caused by the evolution of oxygen producing plants. This fundamentally altered the chemistry of the atmosphere and kicked off the Hangenberg event which is estimated to have killed half of all life in the world’s oceans and around a quarter of all life on dry land.
Incidentally, the sudden and massive spread of plant-life during this period is responsible for the rapid accrual of fossilized carbon that has become the fuel we’re currently killing one another to secure.
Everything else could hypothetically be fixed
We can’t ever really go back. We can update our social responses to climate-wide events. But industrialization isn’t just going to stop happening even if we check our fossil fuel consumption habit. Humanity’s propensity for engineering our surroundings to meet our comfort needs is an unstoppable evolutionary tendency. That’s not something we can ever “fix”. Pandora’s Box was opened millions of years ago. We’re going to have to play this hand out until we hit another ecological balancing point.
Yes but the longer it takes to address them, the worse the fever gets. We still have an opportunity to not burn ourselves out. Albeit a slim one. Earth will be scarred but will survive. Unless we change our ways, we will not.
Oh no, humanity will survive, but you probably won’t.
They ain’t killed me yet
With the way they are acting carelessly; I truly doubt they will do much better. The ruling class may srvive for a hundred or so years after the rest of us but without massive changes, they are also doomed.
The “ruling class” of today rely on the vast pools of labor that constantly increase with food production and industrialization. If something ever killed a significant percentage of the world and reversed population trends, they’d have much less leverage to continue their way of life as they do now. That doesn’t mean things will be good, but there can only be so much cannibalism before it is no longer in a ruling elite’s self interest.
Its a slow burn.
“The world is ending” is easier to accept than “The world has always been a hard place and also I’m not getting any younger”.
Easier to believe you’ll live to see the end of the world than that the world will keep spinning without you.
You have definitely misunderstood. Most of us will probably not live to see the end. But things are about to get a whole hell of a lot worse if we dont reverse course yesterday and we will make earth unlivable for humans and any other non-extremophiles for thousands of years minimum.
Most of us will probably not live to see the end.
There is no “end” to live to see.
things are about to get a whole hell of a lot worse
I get this line every fucking day on here. It really seems to deny the reality of the post-industrial era. One of shrinking poverty, enormous surpluses, and a backbone of infrastructure that benefits the entire planet.
Like Kromptkin recognized over a century ago, we have already won as a society and a species. We just need to recognize it and dole out the winnings equitably. What Westerners see as a terrifying decline arrives just as much of the Eastern Bloc and the Global South are finally cashing in. And much of what Westerners dread is this equanimity - this international muscle enjoyed by nations not in the privileged Early Adopter group taking a slice of the pie they thought was always going to be theirs.
And even then it isn’t really bad news for Westerners in the aggregate, because so much of that pie was going to an elite plutocracy in their own backyards.
What people in the US and the UK and Germany and Japan are coming to terms with is the dead-weight loss of their own monarchies. Whether they choose to carry this baggage into the 22nd century will determine how they end up living. But the days of colonial extraction are closing. The Free Lunches paid for with the surplus labor of East Asia and West Africa are coming to an end.
Yeah no, you clearly dont understand what we are facing atp.
If you’ve stepped outside the US, you’ve seen a very different picture
Funny, the climate and human rights watch reports that im basing my beliefs on are not american. In fact, the american reports would have you thinking everything is dandy.
Every fucking time
Mission Passed
Respect +
Them average 90s clothes (that we wore 10 years ago … right?) tho …
It got easier to deal with after accepting that we’re all essentially just background characters in a cyberpunk dystopia
But it comes with 3g of protein!
