by Heineken » Sun 25 Jul 2021, 07:47:42
Global warming is perfectly designed to kill us off. For example, where I live, each year we're rescued from a dreadful summer by a pleasant fall and mild winter. You get relief that way, and you get brief periodic relief from the heat waves in summer. And you get relief via air conditioning. And every now and then you still get a summer that isn't too bad. So the whole problem you can sweep under your psychic rug, even though the pain and damage while it is occurring gets progressively worse. My own approach is to just try to get through to September, October. Then I figure we're good for another 7 or 8 months or so, a long pleasant, livable period. Once i hit October the dumb part of me says, What, me worry? In microcosm this is our collective strategy too. Tough out what we must, revel in the relief, ignore the doomers. It's one reason why we're not really doing anything about the problem, why we're not willing to truly sacrifice and pay up and CHANGE the whole way we're organized and operating. All we have to do is put on our respirator and wait until October. Part of me knows that at some point the cycle is not survivable, e.g., a particular summer is so bad that the electricity fails and supply chains get wrecked and there are food riots, etc., and the crazies start to Walk. I used to reason that we'd be dead from natural causes by then (I'm 66, the wife is 53). Now I'm not so sure.
The whole damned thing is actually happening. Anyone who wants to can feel the shudder. The Titanic has struck the iceberg. It's dawning on the more rational passengers that the ship will actually sink. Soon they will learn that there aren't enough lifeboats, not nearly.
"Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---I & my bro.