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The nightmarish rush to build near-future ruins

Doesn’t even have to be right wing (a.k.a. the extreme right)… even moderate at this point equals business-as-usual equals right off the cliff as soon as possible.

I guess it’s another pipe dream

Or heat stroke

The rainforest is priceless. The fine should have been $infinity.

Imagine congestion pricing hurting the city’s economy more than allowing public transit to fall apart will…

Tim Watkins, energy-based economics writer from the UK, had some interesting observations about this in his blog today. Scroll down to the third/final subheading, “Advertising doesn’t work that way”.

https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/06/07/d-day-dummies/

The Guardian article mentions a likelihood that in the Amazon region the wet and dry seasons would trade places, making it nearly impossible for many species located there to adapt in the time frame at hand.

It’s going to hurt, this century and even this half century.

The population is in massive overshoot beyond planetary carrying capacity (i.e., its resources that we find useful/necessary and their natural rate of self renewal) by anywhere from 8:1 to perhaps 10:1.

For anything even remotely resembling a smoother landing in the inevitable population decline (i.e., a slower and more just+equitable process involving more natural attrition and less war, murder, famine, and pestilence) the humans currently enjoying the highest levels of technology/development/lifestyle would need to cut their consumption by 80-90 percent – they would need to start living as if it were (perhaps, approximately) the 1700s. This would need to be phased in both very soon and very rapidly.

Of course, those same population groups also have (for the time being, at least) the resources and might to resist that needed reduction by whatever means they can, including war and/or creation of closed enclaves that no longer allow immigration or participate in many forms of external trade. While blaming almost anything and anyone other than the real mechanics (simply massive and growing resource deficit relative to population) of what’s going on.

It’s just going to suck, this time ahead. We who are alive now have to bring this situation home and lay it to rest in the least awful ways we can, and we are rapidly growing very constrained in terms of remaining options.

This, and also I downvoted for the inclusion of the utterly useless “Here’s what you need to know”.

Also known as International Buy-Nothing Day.

well said!

Thanks for this. I’m glad you didn’t have to deal with searing pain since panic is already more than enough.

I don’t mean this to invalidate your experience in any way; I’ll just state sources to make clear where I got that idea.

https://medilexinc.com/a-spoonful-of-medicine-blog/the-process-of-drowning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928428

He’s trying to make sure his party will lose by an even greater margin?

Yes, drowning is known to be quite painful but only for a very brief time before unconsciousness sets in.

Superb!

You’re right. I made a pretty ridiculous error of laziness writing “directly” when what I ought to have said was more along the lines of indirectly, essentially, etc. As far as I understand it, agriculture at its current scale requires a level of nitrogen input (via ammonia) that can only be supplied by the Haber process, which requires an amount of energy that we have no hope of generating by entirely renewable and sustainable means.

It pretty much all tipped back in the Industrial Revolution, and tipped much farther when nitrogen fertilizer began to be made directly from petroleum. At least if we care about original causes more than downstream effects.

There’s no way we will stop in time for +2°C.