Please come tell me I'm being unreasonably doomer (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by BigHaas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Alright, so we pump energy into a chaotic system and obviously the extremes will get more exteme. Stronger hurricanse, colder hurricanse and snap freezes, deeper floods, wet bulb events further north than you think possible, whatever. This is the known unknown.

I am existentially afraid of the unknown unknowns. At what point do the phytoplankton I'm currently breathing the poop of have a mass extinction event? All of human civilization is about to drown on dry land and I spend 5 days a week maintaining software that charges people for turning on their lights.

I crave death I crave oblivion death to america death to capitalism death to me.

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[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Yes those things will get trend to the worse, but we're not going full Canfield Ocean by Tuesday, Venus on Friday, that will take a very long time. There is a mass extinction event going on by simple human greed and poor resource management, we're not going to wipe it clean 2024, but the world will look more boring with far fewer species to interact with.

Deaths of economic systems take time, its a slow transition, think about how long feudalism was the main economic form before giving way to capital. Can't change it without persisting though.