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Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ha less than 10 years? You wish

More like 100 years of slow burn

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Every system is going down faster than expected. Food sources are already taking hits.

This will accelerate exponentially.

Unless we get unlikely, easily sacked, breakthrough energy source quickly or fucking aliens come down and save us, we are doomed.

Climate change was stoppable around 1980, the worst of it was preventable around 2000, now? We may survive if we put our resources toward adaption. Which we don't, and cannot unless some magic happens.

So unless you believe in fairies, don't bring children cus they won't grow old. If you do believe in fairies, you are too delusional to raise children.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's exponential but you and I will still live our full lives, it's just going to get incredibly fucked up

It's not like one day everyone will die, first will be third world countries most affected by climate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

We don't, scientifically, know which one of us is right. We can only go based on gut feeling and anecdotes.

My job is in bioinformatics, from the computational side. The measurements we took were assumed to be wrong due to how far they were out of the expected. Sadly, the equipment did not malfunction, the temperature of the environments we measured shifted drastically causing a reduction in community complexity.

My fun-time is partially in small scale farming, while some of my family members work full time in the agriculture. I've seen both small scale collapse, meaning a tree or a bush die from extreme weather. Members of my family now drink more, as they witnessed fields ruined in a few hours. Hail out of session, a once in a hundred years wind that blew day after day for a week, extreme cold (for the region), extended dry spells in winters with floods between. Each one of those events reduced the agricultural output of a given area to zero for that season.

I live in a western country, we have no technology to stop that and it will become more frequent and global. We have no technology to save our own food supply.

We know how to grow food in building. If we have energy to replace the sun. We don't. So we are going the route of food collapse, leading to population collapse, extinction will follow a few years later.

[–] frunch 2 points 7 months ago

Agreed---we won't be the first to deal with the fallout from all this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I really hope you're right.