Of course we did bro, AI (or at least, the current use of the term) is here and no multinational conglomerate gives a fuck about the environment any more
It's not even about AI. It's just the next growth bubble to milk, there will be the next after.
It never stops.
Wouldn't it be nice if we weren't ruled by psychopathic idiots, and this might have actually made a difference?
World is too busy deciding whether to kill minorities or tax the rich an extra few percent to make any progress on this.
We desperately need a socialist revolution.
Our kids will be really ashamed of us.
Short term profits are way more important than the future of our kids I guess.
America voted for a child rapist, no one postering actually cares about kids
I'm already ashamed of us. I have a hard time walking the fine line between preparing my children for a difficult future and raising kids who know happiness.
I just chose to never have kids because there was never any possibility that humanity would overcome our narcissistic greed prior to ecological collapse.
That was 20 years ago. The last decade has only solidified the certainty of collapse in my mind.
I've really been feeling vindicated for my choice not to have children lately
Yep, same. I love my non-existent children too much to bring them into a world which I only really see getting worse in their hypothetical lifetime. Also helps me have a bit more resources to support the little ones of friends and family to hopefully help their lives suck less despite what they were born into.
It just seems crazy. Normal, sane, hardworking people of the world are begging for governments and corporations to stop killing us through pollution, but the rich don't give a fuck. There won't be consequences for them. There won't be a reckoning. It just feels like they'll stubbornly punish all of us for not being born wealthy like they were.
This is where I envy religious people: I would love to believe that proper justice will be served eventually. But I can't, I have to watch the injustices and cannot do anything about it.
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
Even if it wasn't already too late, the oligarchs profiting from the demise of the planet are in full control of information sources and politicians worldwide. The only way the planet survives is if humanity is wiped out through a global incurable plague at this point.
We have nobody but ourselves to blame for the reckoning that is coming after decades of voting against our own interests and choosing convenience of fossil fuels over the environment.
It's no use going for collective blame and doomerism.
"We have nobody but ourselves to blame..." yeah, except that guy over there burning coal and guzzling fuel like there's no tomorrow. "The only way is to wipe humanity" ...or do something about it for once.
As long as we're here, no matter how bad it is, we have to step against it in the ways we can. It's not us who makes it so. We don't want that. And it's essential to make it a very clear and loud statement one can not turn away from.
Look up your local climate activist groups. See what can be done. Participate in protests. Do it.
The problem is capitalism
there are people who literally believe in magic and avoid guilt in all capacities in favor for an afterlife free of repercussions
stop the proliferation of ideologies that support fairytale images of uniqueness and pursuit of boundless wealth, they lead to the most ugly behavior towards all other animals including other humans
We all know we are fucked. I am living in the moment till it all ends and never having children. Humanity will destroy this planet long before it changes course.
Covid convinced me we're done.
We couldn't even get people to wear a fucking mask to protect themselves from a disease they saw killing their neighbors. Shit - we can't get them to allow other people to wear a mask.
The part that absolutely kills me about this is that there were anti-maskers during the 1918 "spanish flu" pandemic. This suggest that with two valid examples that this is a bad idea, people still chose to not do it. It also suggests that we're still the same society that we were 100 years ago.
https://www.history.com/articles/1918-spanish-flu-mask-wearing-resistance
We're still the same society we were 500 years ago, just with technology.
Only when we can step away from capitalism can we change course. Until then, the system locks everyone in and we're just tinkering with detail. And that step will be a rough one, but it is necessary.
Yeah they're changing course... To go upwards even faster. 🤦♂️
Fuck it, start geoengineering. Snowpiercer actually looked kind of fun.
Time to perfect the cockroach blend recipe
Haven't we missed it like 10 years ago?
Lol yeah change course now because all the other warnings worked
We are fucked.
Have more kids! Have pets! Don't worry, we'll just all move to Mars!
It's over. Even if every single person and corporation did an about-face on this right now, inertia alone would carry us into the consequences this was intended to avoid. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Money buys power and influence and politicians react more to that than their own constituents. When money can bend reality and get people to vote against their own interests just to keep the status quo, there'll be no change.
I mean, for all the things we do right we get stuff like the Bezos wedding where everyone arrives via private jet or COP25 where everyone also arrives by private jet to discuss the climate.
We have Greta Thunberg who addressed the world leaders and voiced our discontent at their lack of action. Her views are not unique and are a reflection of many but yet, despite laying the truth bare and shaming leaders for their inaction, power and influence labels her as whatever they want to discredit her words and influence.
So, if we want to reverse things and change, we need to target the rich and tax them, shame them, eat them... Whatever it takes and only then will we be able to do something net positive. Doing 'our part' is not enough when the top 1% literally offsets all of our efforts everyday.
Uh huh, that was by design
Those Paris climate accords were literally useless, as it was nothing more but a kind suggestion.
Even when we would have made hard contracts we know that half the countries out there would have failed for a variety of reasons (most of them being a variety of "ah but I want to be re-elected and if I try to save the world, things will be slightly harder for my base, so I sign for yes, and then do no")
This was just a "well let's give it a try" and the US immediately borked out with Trump because now it's cool to have mentally deficient adults controlling countries.
Nobody with a brain ever believed that we'd his that 1.5 degree limit. Ik actually fairly confident that we'll get a two degree limit, which we'll crash right through, then we'll start producing CO2 harder and faster than ever before just to be sure we can take straight through the 3 and 4 degree limits that we'll set because politicians don't give a fuck about any of this, they only care about their reelection and the populace of countries that matter either can't do anything about it (hello China, how is Winnie today?) or just too fucking dumb to even understand the issue (hello USA, how is the Cheeto today?)
I honestly believe that we're in humanities end-times. Not the biblical ones, those were fairytales, but the real one that humanity made for itself. There is no one to blame but us. I think GenX will live to see how humanity dies out, because nobody will fix this obvious problem with obvious solutions, everyone who matters can only think about themselves so enjoy the days that we have left, all.
There are many Great Filters, but this one is mine (ours).
Whatever tiny hope of correcting this died when Trump was re-elected. It's been game over for a while now. That's not to say we shouldn't try to make a difference where we can, but it's too late for Earth.
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