It’s already too late to prevent some level of collapse. But that doesn’t mean we should give up!

Because we still have a choice, a vital choice, between (1) a world very different from our recent past, but likely survivable for a smaller population of humans, living simpler lives in closer harmony with their surroundings; or (2) a world where no humans remain at all, and millions of other species perish along with us, due to the terrible decisions we allowed our “leaders” to make.

That is what we’re fighting for now. It’s why we urgently need system change, and a pivot toward Degrowth. Because the difference between a planet 2°C above the pre-industrial baseline (still perhaps achievable) and one 3°C or 4°C above the baseline (where we’re currently headed) is huge. In fact, it’s existential.

@breadandcircuses
Came across a Mastodon post linking to a blog supporting continued growth.

It's hard to understand how apparently intelligent people can think, "We've continued to grow and increase greenhouse gases for the last 50 years knowing that it will result in climate change and now we should do some more growth because that will stop climate change."
But that seems to be the line taken.

@Badmax
That's the narrative which they and you believe. But it's not factual. It's the human mind that can't / won't voluntarily imagine global disruptive disasters or regional disasters that echo through the fragile fabric of tech civilisation and rip it apart.
Hundreds of millions of highly complex-specialised personell are needed to run our tech civilisation from mining raw materials for manufacturing and transporting lab tubes to lubricants to lorry tires and also fossil fuels. If they die you can't replace them with others bc you can't get others trained, anymore.
So what happens when shit hits the fan is that today's decision-makers in economy, politics, media are just as focked as everybody else. A bunker with shelves of food won't save the rich. If they survive the first death waves at all, they'll become foraging nomads just like all other survivors in cultures where the majority has long forgotten how to make do with less.

@skua @breadandcircuses