It feels like we’re staring into an abyss, the depths of which end in an irreversible, global, societal collapse.
Look around you — our infrastructure is creaking under the weight of relentless economic inequality and political corruption, the human race cursed by our own follies of infinite growth and environmental abuse. All very likely ending in our decimation and destruction.
The powerful few hoard wealth and resources while vast populations are left scrambling, fuelling deep-rooted resentment and blind nationalistic fervour. Across the developed world the middle class is dead or dying. We have all been herded into class warfare by those promising next-day deliveries and cobalt-filled status symbols.
Climate change isn’t a distant threat anymore. It's a raging storm that is accelerating resource scarcity and environmental disasters. Our "leadership" and political institutions are utterly unprepared to handle the pace at which all this is happening. Too many have buried their heads into the sand. Too many cling to how things used to be.
This isn’t just another crisis. It’s a systemic unraveling that challenges the very fabric of our civilisation. With each catastrophic weather event, every failed or ignored policy, and every act of violence, the notion of global stability disintegrates further.
Technological advances meant to connect us have instead only magnified our divisions. Trust in traditional institutions erodes rapidly. Power structures are changing, old alliances...crumbling. Cyber-attacks and economic warfare are no longer the stuff of dystopian novels
The stage is set for an all-out global conflict that could plunge us into a chaos far worse than any previous war.
We are - all of us - standing at a crossroads. It is clear to me that we must embrace decisive action to mend a fractured world before our dystopian - and almost certainly very short - future is set in stone. In the urgency of this moment, the choice is stark—either we forge a new path towards sustainable stability, or we resign ourselves to the inexorable, inescapable and horrific consequences of inaction.
Mark my words: this decade will become known as the last one in which we had the hope of a possibility of changing course to avoid global collapse.
I would kindly ask you not to accuse me of lying - perhaps I was too brief in explaining my position and could have better phrased it.
We have very clear thresholds in the IPCC for climate disaster mitigation. We are NOT on track to reduce emissions below those thresholds by 2030, the generally agreed upon date that such reductions are necessary by. By most accounts, we won't hit those targets, particularly when considering who is currently the president of one of the world's biggest contributors and potential leaders in said reductions.
Put differently, climate science has been telling us for years that it will soon be too late, and we - in the opinion of many, including the EU's Copernicus - have already surpassed the crucial 1.5c mark.