I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said — “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
  • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Even if ALL human sourced carbon emissions ended today, the global warming feedback loops already in motion will end most life. Fossil records show that it has happened before.

    The thing about unsustainable systems is that they are by definition unsustainable. Humanity has fucked around and now we are finding out.

      • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        rich life at higher temps

        Until it goes even higher. The release of sub-permafrost and continental slope methane deposits will push it way past the balmy arctic stage before the feedback ends and equilibrium is regained.

  • Nakoichi [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Interesting essay but it makes a lot of presuppositions about human nature from a very anglo-centric perspective steeped in capitalist realism.

    This sort of doomerism is terribly counterproductive and ironically idealistic.

    A better world is possible.