At this point I have no doubt that our species is creating a future world where tremendous suffering will be our everyday reality. Is it now time to start focusing exclusively on survival after the collapse? Is it time to start thinking and acting post-apocalyptically? Let's be honest people.
this story was swiped from Tim Morton's blog:
The Next Crash Will Be Ecological - and Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts
Why are the world's governments bothering? Why are they jetting to Cancun next week to discuss what to do now about global warming? The vogue has passed. The fad has faded. Global warming is yesterday's apocalypse. Didn't somebody leak an email that showed it was all made up? Doesn't it sometimes snow in the winter? Didn't Al Gore get fat, or molest a masseur, or something?Alas, the biosphere doesn't read Vogue. Nobody thought to tell it that global warming is so 2007. All it knows is three facts. 2010 is globally the hottest year since records began [source]. 2010 is the year humanity's emissions of planet-warming gases reached its highest level ever [source]. And exactly as the climate scientists predicted, we are seeing a rapid increase in catastrophic weather events, from the choking of Moscow by gigantic unprecedented forest fires to the drowning of one quarter of Pakistan.Before the Great Crash of 2008, the people who warned about the injection of huge destabilizing risk into our financial system seemed like arcane, anal bores. Now we all sit in the rubble and wish we had listened. The great ecological crash will be worse, because nature doesn't do bailouts.
That's what Cancun should be about -- surveying the startling scientific evidence, and developing an urgent plan to change course. The Antarctic -- which locks of 90 percent of the world's ice -- has now seen eight of its ice shelves fully or partially collapse [source]. The world's most distinguished climate scientists, after recordings like this, say we will face a three to six feet rise in sea level this century [source] . That means the drowning of London, Bangkok, Venice, Cairo and Shanghai, and entire countries like Bangladesh and the Maldives...Perhaps the most startling news story of the year passed almost unnoticed [source]. Plant plankton (phytoplankton) are tiny creatures that live in the oceans and carry out a job you and I depend on to stay alive. They produce half the world's oxygen, and suck up planet-warming carbon dioxide. Yet this year, one of the world's most distinguished scientific journals, Nature, revealed that 40 percent of them have been killed by the warming of the oceans since 1950. Professor Boris Worm, who co-authored the study, said in shock: "I've been trying to think of a biological change that's bigger than this and I can't think of one." That has been the result of less than one degree of warming. Now we are on course for at least three degrees this century.
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anarcho-primitivists have been on this for years. which lots of people have their nitpicking with but the authenticity for post-collapse systems is there. the important thing is that people dont slide into the ridiculous western Survivalism thing like most peak oil nerds do and learn from the field work anthropology such as James Woodburn and Richard B. Lee on nomadic hunter-gatherers... regardless of how you want to label the systems (immediate return, etc... whereas Ingold finds qualms with the label, the essence of sharing, trust and immediacy is still present). a mesh of elements from all these places would be a nice start in direction.
Hey there,
"a meah of elements" - i like that. And I certainly agree with your comment as a whole: but do you think we can actually create such hybrid systesm proactively? Or will we be left scrambling to create some ad hoc reality when things get real bad?
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