That's pretty much how I classify myself. Currently trying to guestimate how many digits America's excess mortality will hit before things start improving, hoping 7 doesn't wind up making me look like an optimist.
Pretty much consistent with population biology theory for collapse of very large populations, given our massive numbers and pervasiveness across different systems, it should actually be fairly hard to FULLY eliminate humans, so yes
i think that is the pessimistic option tbh. if 99% of humans die the last 1% are way better at surviving than the first 99%. it'd be extremely difficult to kill all of humanity, killing most is probably the worst case scenario.
Oh, things are guaranteed to get weirder and worse before anything recognizable as humanity dies out. Like, so much of the worst industries require things like 'not getting burned in massive wildfires', 'working seaports', and 'roads not being flooded'.
So much of the worst of global capitalism is built on a knife's edge to extract as much profit as possible and there very much will come a point when environmental degradation violently forces something like degrowth. The question is whether we'll learn from the experience and take the foothold.
I guess.
I believe we're fucked, but that solar geoengineering might delay collapse long enough for us to get our shit together.
Due to the aerosol termination shock after IMO2020, back-to-back crop failures, Amazon dieback, etc, I think we only have a decade or so left unless we deploy it asap.
oh, same. i don't believe human extinction is likely but theres a lot of plausible scenarios where global civilization falls apart and most of the world returns to subsistence farming.
This is my exact mindset. My friends are all having kids, they'll be amazing parents, I think kids will do great. But I feel so many of us, globally, are on the cusp of earlier lifespans and unexpected deaths
Same thought. Something survived the Ice Age and the supposed meteor impact that wiped the dinosaurs, something's going to survive whatever's coming too, even if it's just bacteria.
I can't say for sure civilisation will survive though. I'm sure if enough infrastructure and scholars are gone, we will not see civilisation as we know it. It'll be back to Middle Ages.
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Civilization will crumble, but the population will survive to try rebuilding a new era. And, to ensure something like this never happens again.
MOTHERFUCKER, A LOT OF PEOPLE WON'T. SHUT UP
They know the braindead twitter types only want to be told what they already feel to be true.
So when those peeps cry, they fake cry
Not us, of course. I trust you all flew privately?
I believe we're fucked, but that solar geoengineering might delay collapse long enough for us to get our shit together.
Due to the aerosol termination shock after IMO2020, back-to-back crop failures, Amazon dieback, etc, I think we only have a decade or so left unless we deploy it asap.