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LeftsidefromNY's avatar

So, I agree that there needs to be a mass awakening, in fact I’ve said this for a very long time. There are many things as you said that lull us to sleep, some are rooted in religious belief which perpetuates this skepticism of science. Another being propaganda, as you also stated. People are accustomed to having “leaders” figure out what they should or shouldn’t do, and “they’ll figure it out.” Never thinking that maybe...possibly they won’t. I agree with basically all you wrote, but that mass awakening has to be coupled with mass direct action. Eventually, when the climate crisis is in full swing, there will be famine, and violence would be soon to follow, it’s a natural course of frustration. There will also be the racists and xenophobes who will become extreme against climate refugees. And that’s the opposite of what will be needed. I don’t know what the end game is for the rich and powerful, it’s senseless. Unless they have already created an escape route that helps them to escape all the oncoming horrors. Nukes and climate change, extremism and anti-intellectualism...it’s all a bad mix. Rational thinking and quick decisive action is needed in times like that, and it just appears so hopeless. So many are dumbed down and want someone else to do the work. We cannot win that way.

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Frank Thompson's avatar

You wrote: "Will we pop? Will we wake up? I don't know; we either will or we won't. But for the moment I can't help but stare in awe of humanity's crazy wisdom for getting itself into this mess."

I would suggest humanity will go a third direction: when the climate holocaust arrives, humanity will slog its way into the new reality, with a greatly reduced population, such as possibly a few hundred thousand-but certainly not enough humans to preserve current technological society-living as hunter-gatherers and farmers in places that remain cool enough: the Arctic and Antarctic regions. I tell myself Earth's ecosystems can then evolve quickly enough to preserve some lifeforms after the warming.

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