And the west is going to handle it about as well as they did covid
We had a training wheels trial of a global catastrophe and it looked like we couldn't tell our asses from a hole in the ground. The funniest part of going back and watching mid-2000s disaster movies is the idea that anyone would do anything about this stuff.
considering how I was just talking to somebody from NorCal saying "Alaska's warmer than back home" right now, I'd say I'm gonna have a fun summer cosplaying as Australia while it's burning alive.
So at what point of inevitable disaster do we need to reach before FF7 becomes prophetic and eco terrorists attempting to blow up sites and assassinate "presidents" of companies becomes a thing?
Before 9/11 per the FBI the greatest domestic threat to American national security were environmental activists :)
Here is a fun read related to the same: https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/the-threat-of-eco-terrorism
Interesting, seems small bananas though. There are a lot of pipelines and other things that are essentially critical infrastructure in the middle of nowhere easily hit. And then there's the CEOs themselves. It honestly surprises me that they haven't been targeted.
Not in a "I think they should be" way but in a "why isn't this happening yet?" way. Is it because the issue is such a slow boil that it just isn't creating a reaction? FF7 is an imaginary piece of fiction of course but it imagines eco terrorism beginning far earlier it seems. Or maybe I'm wrong and the world of FF7 was nicer and more developed previously, only leading to the scenario it's currently in after massive global climate change already occurred. It's hard to imagine what the previous 200-300 years of FF7's world looked like to get to a scenario where there are sporadic global towns and settlements with only two major population centres being a dystopian mega city or a dystopian themepark monstrosity for the wealthy.
There was a pretty huge crackdown on radical environmental activists in the 90's, and that story is rarely ever told.
Also, the recent climate energy that was swelling up until the pandemic showed some signs of turning in a more radical direction, but we'll never know now. I worry that reigniting that is going to be really difficult.
Won't be that difficult just wait for entire countries to be on fire again. The world literally burning around us ought to be something of a motivator.
Not in a “I think they should be” way but in a “why isn’t this happening yet?” way.
My thinking is that the people who take the problem seriously understand that it requires a systemic solution.
“why isn’t this happening yet?”
Probably because the FBI is selling all the explosives
That reminds me of when Obama was being heckled by conservatives during his campaign. One of them said "The problem isn't conservatives like me! It's environmental activists!"
Was that regarded as a good thing or a bad thing in that game? I never played it
well, you are playing an ex-special forces mercenary hired by the eco-terrorists to carry out the job.
But since it's an RPG, the head of the terrorist group and your childhood friend who owns the bar they run their safehouse out of are also in your party.
Eventually a robot cat also joins you who may be a government op.
FF7 starts with you acting as a paid mercenary working with an eco terrorist group to blow up a power plant. You then go on to join and lead said eco terrorist group in opposing the actions of the global ruling power which is basically just one big mega company.
Me every summer in the SF bay area during wildfire season trying not to get bronchitis again or another ear infection from the smoke
another ear infection from the smoke
Wait, is this a thing? Cause last year I got swimmers ear several times right around the time the fires got bad (LA btw). I assumed it was cause I'd started going on walks more while wearing headphones and the sweat caused it, but I didn't know smoke might be a factor too...
Yup if certainly can cause it, as well as many other sinus related issues
We'll all be living in hell world soon
yes yes I understand your concerns radical leftist but your boss needs to make money. We must find a middle ground here, help me out Jack!
On this site are some of the most aware, caring, conscientious people on the planet right now. There has to be something, anything we can think of if we put our heads together and pool our intellectual resources. I know we joke around a lot but I truly think that if the solutions to these issues can emerge from anywhere, it can be from here. Why not? Only one planet - why not try? Open to ideas.
Yep, and there's nothing we, as in the common man, can do about it.
We're gettin' the worst case scenario climate-wise and will just have to pick up the pieces, it's easier to accept and start planning for that rather than hold out hope that capitalists will magically change their entire philosophy tomorrow.
Organize organize organize organize
These are collective problems, we need collectivist answers.
There's something eery about an article about impending climate hell broken up by six ads selling you some shit to make the world warmer.
It's like the first draft of a Paul Verhoeven script that needs to be toned down a bit
UN is pretty shitty at coming up with solutions though. They keep holding on to muh green capitalism that's not actually green.
Yeah I think climate posadism is probably our most likely path towards establishing communism at this point
