Kent Pitman@kentpitman@climatejustice.social
@RichardAshwell@climatejustice.social
Oh, and I don't know what that #collapse2040 tag is about, but I expect collapse to happen sooner than that. For more than a decade I'd been saying 2035. Even that seems optimistic to me now. 2040 seems out right luxurious in terms of time. I just can't believe we'll get that much. And that's why I'm talking about our fates, not the fates of our kids.
People report to care about their kids, but from the way they behave, and my bet that they believe it will affect only them and not ourselves, my sense is that they would sell out their kids in an instant for just a little more pleasure themselves, because that's what I see them doing everyday through inaction. It's just that now I think they aren't even going to get that little more pleasure because it's going to hit us too soon. Want the kids-seller-outers among us be sad...
Richard Ashwell@RichardAshwell@climatejustice.social
@kentpitman@climatejustice.social
For me the #collapse2040 hashtag means the following:
In 2040 if you are not growing your own food, assuming you still can given the increasingly eratic #climate, then marauding bands of hungry armed looters will be doing their very best to steal it from you. The only people who will survive will be those who are rich enough to employ their own private army to defend the food they grow on land they claim to be theirs, and their employees, of course.
In what order, and when, exactly, the things you mention will occur, I know not. There will, in any case, be multiple occurrences of all of them in various different places over the next couple of decades. These things are all happening now, and will simply grow in size and number until the population of the planet is reduced to a fraction of what it is now.
And this will affect me, not just my children and grandchildren.
No, most people simply don't have a clue about what is happening now, never mind what will happen in the future.
What am I doing about it? Just living the best life I can while I can.