"Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death."
"Welcome to the #Sunak and #Starmer show and welcome to the next four, five, six or seven months of your life."
BBC
I can reveal that neither of them will be presenting the policy choices that are needed on the face of multiple symptoms of systems #collapse.
Instead do take a look at and promote the #GettingReal policy portfolio. https://gettingreal.org.uk
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Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half anticipate at least 3C. Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C limit would be met.
Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.
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I am heading to my doctor today to have my foot pain evaluated. Crazy, if I wasn't available today, the next available appointment was 5/2. A month out. #healthcare#collapse
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Everything dies — nothing is permanent — and civilizations are no exception. We tend to celebrate births and mourn deaths, but we must never forget that each makes the other possible. The end is in the beginning. Birth and death coinhere. So in this sense endings too should be celebrated as completions of the circle, heralding new beginnings.
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A long read.
To paraphrase (and without agreeing with every point), <<It's the energy crunch that will impose economic contraction and/or collapse on advanced (hollowed out) economies>>.
📢#jobalert
Wir suchen einen Redakteurin (m/w/d) für Klima und Umwelt als Verstärkung für unser Team.
Erfahrung im Journalismus oder in der #wisskomm und Expertise in Klima- und Umweltwissenschaften? Lust, Teil eines hochmotivierten Teams zu werden, journalistisch nah am Puls der Wissenschaft?
Hier geht´s zur Stellenausschreibung: https://sciencemediacenter.de/das-smc/jobs/#collapse-accordion-2026 #jobs#hiring
With the worlds apparent spiralling descent into fascism and the murmurings of mandatory conscription, i've been pondering whether, as humans, we consider ourselves to be "owned" by the state or whether we consider ourselves independent sentient beings. If someone told me I HAD to join the army, I would tell them where to go. "If you don't like it, shoot me" They may well take me up on that but ultimately we either give in or stand our ground. We have choices. #fascism#conscription#collapse
A thought about #doomerism vs #positivism...
In society's #collapse, billions of people will die, and billions of people will survive.
The only chance we have of minimizing the death and suffering is to convince people they're likely to be among the dead. People won't take the drastic measures that are needed unless they're scared for themselves or their loved ones.
Doomerism tries to convince people they're at risk. Positivism tells them not to worry.
Which is better harm reduction praxis?
If I understand correctly, the difference between (2) and (3) is whether one thinks that <x> is realistically doable. This is always going to be an ideological question, in that what people think is doable and what they think isn't is a core part of ideology.
To me, for example, the statement "we can't save the world without abolishing capitalism and patriarchy, and there's no way that power will allow us to do that so we'll need to overthrow that first" leads me to reply "cool, lemme roll up my sleeves and get started." This is because to me that sounds doable, so to me that statement is a (3). To you it might be a (2).
This suggests that different people, depending upon their own sense of their own potency or lack thereof, might read the same sentence as containing a different message.
Many of us have been identifying strongly with Cassandra over the last few years. We watch the media downplay and dismiss one threat after another. We endure endless opinion pieces about everything from climate alarmism to coronaphobia. Influencers accuse us of hurting everyone’s mental health. Strangers call us doomers and fearmongers. Our friends and family treat us like we’re paranoid. When we share dozens or even hundreds of studies, they refuse to look at them. They say, “I don’t want to read anything that’ll bring me down.”
“I’m trying to stay positive.”
....
Here’s the thing:
You’re not a fearmonger.
You have sentinel intelligence.
Sentinel intelligence refers to a special cognitive ability that allows someone to detect threats before anyone else. Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy talk about this trait in their book.... They review a number of natural and economic disasters throughout history. ”Not only were Cassandra's ignored, but “the people with the power to respond often put more effort into discounting the Cassandra than saving lives and resources.”
"The 10 Chilling Laws of Pandemics
We’re stumbling blindly through a dangerous present towards an even grimmer future."
"Anyone who wants to understand why the decades that await us will not be normal needs to pause for a moment and consider the historic weight of pandemics."
seeing my cousins for the first time since 2019 and so far so good—fell right into sharing notes on community resilience best practices, covid prudence, amended USDA hardiness zones, homestead systems redundancies, goat care, #collapse, and how to manage the rise of fascism in small towns.
@cthon1c this is so nice to read! Have been feeling the fissures in families (including my own) and communities so much recently. Good to celebrate togetherness wherever you find it
This story by @jessicawildfire has an interesting perspective for me anyways.
Hint: There's a lot of oil and gas under Gaza so it has to be vacated for big oil. Why else would the USA arm Israel so heavily? And the same is true for Ukraine.
The Gaza invasion is the US government supporting the oil industry. I've got questions.
I think it’s more complex than that, but I don’t deny the imprint of big oil on so much toxic policy. Biden is in a terrible fix re balancing the loyalty of deep pocket donors sympathetic to Israel against the loyalty of humanitarian voters who rightly expect his administration to exert more pressure on Netanyahu for restraint. So far, he’s been protecting the money and his only solid Middle East outpost. I don’t equate Biden with Putin or Netanyahu - not yet.
«The structural transformations that would be necessary to truly put off collapse indefinitely are enormous, and will not happen without first openly acknowledging that collapse is the likely result of inaction (i.e. of business as usual). We would have to transform economies to stop or reverse growth, assess and adopt practices geared for long-term sustainability, prioritize nature over ourselves, and establish a global cooperative to live within our means.»
