The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse (medium.com)

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In case you haven't read this…you should. It's an excellent resource to send to the folks you know about why you believe what you do.

Oh, and you can follow the author, Sam Hall, on Mastadon: https://mas.to/@SamYourEyes

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[-] ZoeyBear@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

This is incredibly pessimistic and doesn’t account for any ingenuity we as humans possess. Are we going to have a good time probably not but to assume we are all screwed is incredibly nihilistic.

[-] RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Check out this article. As the author points out, "some technology that is completely unknown right now will save us!" is magical thinking. A quote:

We could call the implausible amounts of disappearing carbon in the models a kind of “carbon rapture,” magicking the pollutant away by mysterious means. It’s easy to see how those eager to believe we can be saved from climate change’s effects without much effort would want to believe in the coming carbon rapture. But the dubiousness of this joyful “tech-will-save-us” assumption is getting harder to hide.

[-] ZoeyBear@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I didn’t say it would save us from the carbon we already have ways to farm massive quantities in doors, using artificial greenhouses. Not a lot are built but they do exists, there are alternatives that are completely ignored in favor of doom and gloom. I agree carbon wise we are screwed from stopping the climate changes happening, but we definitely can and will adapt.

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