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Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices.
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Wealth inequality, out-of-control prices, climate chaos, political extremism, and nothing is being done to fix any of it. There’s no one at the wheel and we’re headed for a cliff.
I imagine what will happen that will “snap” the world into some sort of action is a huge environmental disaster that damages a shit-ton of property, an environmental 9/11 moment. A major city will get permanently flooded and have to get abandoned, to which people will be like, “How could this have happened?” Bitch, scientists have been warning us for decades, we’ve been sleepwalking into this for ages. At that point, maybe we’ll get serious about it, but by that point it may already be too late.
Part of the delusion is that it isn't real until it happens to them, so yes.
And before anyone says anything, the Libya flooding was partly caused by climate change.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1199273629/climate-change-exacerbates-deadly-floods-worldwide
Nobody really cared about the long term impacts of hurricane Katrina, and the rich just used it to privatize a bunch of shit, and then they got richer. I wish something like that would be enough to make people give a shit, but we've just been there before.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
One party is fighting against fixing it, and the other is doing (depending on the issue) either nothing or implementing laughably inadequate "solutions" that they order us to be satisfied with.
And then anything that is passed is struck down by bad faith courts.
My money is on that city to flood will be New York. That will make the global rich notice.
Yeah, I think New Orleans wasn't a really as much a "rich people problem" as much as what a flooding of NY would be. That's when people will have their come-to-Jesus moment and be like, "Oh shit, we should probably start doing something about this!"
We won't though. The rich will move to their 2nd or 3rd homes until there is nowhere else to go. The rest of us who aren't cultists will continue screaming until our vocal chords snap. And by that point the smog will be too thick to take another breath.
Our only hope, our only choice, is action. Right now, this year. Or we can scavenge for substance as the last is swallowed by the flies.
Oh man, good thing the NYSE is in Manhattan, which we all know is on top of a mountain, thank goodness its not on an island basically adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, because that would endanger the Most Important Thing Ever™ if it were to flood.