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~Mentions Fully Automated Luxury Communism to Conservative Person in response to his mention of The Cloward–Piven strategy~
Moi: “Unfortunately, Catastrophic Climate Change is gonna shitcan that idea. Not sure how bad it will be, but it's going to 'crash the system' one way or another.”
Conservative Person: “The earth always go through cycles and I think we can equate it to those who bought up the mountains in CA in the 1970's bc a fault was going to make that beachfront property.” ::smile emoji::
Moi: “Yes, the earth goes thru cycles and a warming trend was on the menu, temps going up few degrees over a few centuries. What humans did was pump trillions of tons of extra hydrocarbons into that cycle and accelerate it. Now temps are rising further and faster, several degrees over only several decades, That s what makes this Climate Change cycle 'Catastrophic'. It's too much, too fast and it is hitting all of earth's systems too hard.
How bad it is going to be I cannot say. As ever, the Global South will suffer more than the Global North, The Equatorial Regions will be hit the hardest, may even become uninhabitable for a period of time, which will of course drive more refugees north, creating violent social confrontations. Coast lines will recede, cities will drown and previously useful farmland will die, causing famine. Increased heat will also cause an increase in disease.
But those are all things we as a species can survive.
At the other extreme, the surface of the planet might become entirely uninhabitable for centuries, dividing the survivors into those who live underground and those who live in space, basically the metaphor of the Morlocks and the Eloi. Each group will have to 'engineer' themselves, Genetically and Cybernetically, in order to adapt.
But, as I said, I cannot say how bad things will get. One thing I'm fairly certain of; Catastrophic Climate Change will kill Capitalism dead. We'll likely even see trials of Corporate executives for Crimes Against Humanity, tho that also depends upon how fast and how far things go in the shitter.”
Moi: “Unfortunately, Catastrophic Climate Change is gonna shitcan that idea. Not sure how bad it will be, but it's going to 'crash the system' one way or another.”
Conservative Person: “The earth always go through cycles and I think we can equate it to those who bought up the mountains in CA in the 1970's bc a fault was going to make that beachfront property.” ::smile emoji::
Moi: “Yes, the earth goes thru cycles and a warming trend was on the menu, temps going up few degrees over a few centuries. What humans did was pump trillions of tons of extra hydrocarbons into that cycle and accelerate it. Now temps are rising further and faster, several degrees over only several decades, That s what makes this Climate Change cycle 'Catastrophic'. It's too much, too fast and it is hitting all of earth's systems too hard.
How bad it is going to be I cannot say. As ever, the Global South will suffer more than the Global North, The Equatorial Regions will be hit the hardest, may even become uninhabitable for a period of time, which will of course drive more refugees north, creating violent social confrontations. Coast lines will recede, cities will drown and previously useful farmland will die, causing famine. Increased heat will also cause an increase in disease.
But those are all things we as a species can survive.
At the other extreme, the surface of the planet might become entirely uninhabitable for centuries, dividing the survivors into those who live underground and those who live in space, basically the metaphor of the Morlocks and the Eloi. Each group will have to 'engineer' themselves, Genetically and Cybernetically, in order to adapt.
But, as I said, I cannot say how bad things will get. One thing I'm fairly certain of; Catastrophic Climate Change will kill Capitalism dead. We'll likely even see trials of Corporate executives for Crimes Against Humanity, tho that also depends upon how fast and how far things go in the shitter.”
