Gregory's Server@pezmico Here's the thing: civilization might survive the fuck phase.
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@dave_von_s @FinalOverdrive @pezmico I’ve been reading up on the Bronze Age collapse lately. For, y’know, reasons.  @aprilfollies @dave_von_s @pezmico The scary thing is I don't think the collapse will be that dramatic. @FinalOverdrive @dave_von_s @pezmico The Bronze Age collapse wasn’t, either, as I understand it. Whole generations just… leaving no-longer-livable cities behind. @FinalOverdrive @dave_von_s @pezmico Then we’d better get good at urban food production on a pretty urgent timeline. Bonus, growing more plants will help cool cities down. Miami is probably doomed, though. @aprilfollies @dave_von_s @pezmico Yes and no. We won't know until it happens. Urban food production is already starting. @FinalOverdrive @dave_von_s @pezmico Yes, I’m involved in developing urban gardens in my city. It doesn’t scale to feeding numbers in the hundreds of thousands at the moment. What we have now are pilot projects. Basically we need to be doing All The Things to reduce the impact and prepare for it. The more we do now, the less bad we can make this inflection point in human history.  @FinalOverdrive @pezmico I miss already being able to THINK during the afternoon, though @FinalOverdrive @pezmico probably, but a lot of innocent and vulnerable people who had no part in creating the disaster are going to die from it. @FinalOverdrive @pezmico i mean probably, but we could also help/have helped not getting to the point of dealing with that @atzanteol @pezmico I never said it wasn't fucked up, but it does prove green politics was it's own worst enemy. It was unable and unwilling to contemplate a greater horror: that civilization at this stage could survive even climate change. |
@FinalOverdrive @pezmico humans will not disappear; there will be places that are still habitable. Humanity will get a blow though and civilization as we know it now will no longer be sustainable (not that it’s sustainable now, but we will also no longer be able to keep it alive in its current form)