I'm almost 40 and Ave basically accepted I am probably gonna die in the water wars of 2034. Also I have no kids to worry about so it's a weirdly zenlike feeling.
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when those egyptian cat gods come to pick me up in their canoe. hell yeah, that's my vibe.
I really hope if there is an afterlife that's the one I end up in.
Huh, for some reason I thought you were younger than me >.>
Really? curious what gave that impression. I frequently talk about being one of the oldest posters.
Funnily enough, I actually thought you were much older than "almost 40", because of your tendency to call yourself old around here. But it turns out you're probably only a few years older than I am. Thanks, I can feel it in my bones now. 
Honestly, no idea. I feel like I generally vibe as "elder millenial" so unless someone mentions being old and I notice..? Probably on me.
I mean, I'm 34 and while i didn't think you were a zoomer, I didn't think you were older than me tbh
might have been the occasional 
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I am probably gonna die in the water wars of 2034
I tell my students that this is my retirement plan.
are you me?
One literally cannot overstate how successful the last sixty years of capitalist brainwashing have been to destroy any semblance or even idea of any alternative to capitalism. Everything has been on a downward trajectory for the last sixty years and we have to climb mountains upon mountains to get out of this hole.
once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains
once there were birds who darkened the skies for days as they flew over head.
I mean, predicting the future is going to be spotty... But most scenarios are very bleak.
how is everyone so calm about it
I will never know
Its gonna be bad. Not everyone is gonna die but so many will and it will be a very slow decay spanning decades. Humanity will be around for a very long time but the conditions for the majority will be really....... Really bad. Somehow that may even be worse than humanity being wiped out at once. There are people that exaggerate how bad it will be like billions will die by x date or we'll reach 4C by 2050 etc. But the more realistic scenarios are looking tough long term. We should still do everything we can to fight this shit.
We absolutely will reach 4C by 2050
Don't see it tbh. Most of the climate models don't seem to indicate that. There'd have to be major rollbacks to all emission cuts we've made and go back on the harmful energy sources for the newables we've made. That said even the path we're on is still gonna lead to a lot of devastation
see you in 26 years space cowboy
When I teach my intro level climate science class, the whole first lecture is dedicated to hammering home just how bad things are, and how much worse they're going to get. I update it every year that I teach the class, and it's a really depressing experience. The lecture is called "Everything is Terrible and Nobody Cares."
I took a climate science class and that was the same messaging. Shit is fucking horrid. I probably think about what I learned in that class every day. Especially, as these climate disasters get worse. It's all very predictable. It was also taught about how it would affect our region and I see it all the time.
is it available online?
No, I've never bothered to record it. I should do that next time around.
I think a lot of people are in shock, in denial, in bargaining. The most useful bits of grief haven't coalesced yet.
Not much that can be said without evoking nihilistic thoughts tbh.
Personaly I thought COVID was a real opportunity and there would be a lot more severe consequences from it, specialy when things were about to hit the cool zone(mass evictions etc) but the world sucessfuly managed to enforce the business as usual rhetoric(even China caved on Zero covid), sweep everything under the rug and move on.
Those who lost family members(despite precations) got fucked. No justice or consequence. This is the preview you need. We will ignore and dismiss as much as possible. Those who revolt or start seeing the problem will become targets. Ecofascism will find the easiest answers and the left is completely unprepared.
The nihilism comes from realizing perhaps we're dead set on this path for some time now, its not a recent change and probably nobody alive today had a real chance of fighting to avoid this fate.
Kurzgesagt commented on one of BadEmpanada's videos, and they got into a bit of an argument in the replies. Interesting entertainment.
don't look up!