I had pretty much this same thought just the other day. It’s so disheartening how oil companies and other industries managed to delay any significant changes that might have prevented this.
still delaying, gaslighting, distracting and greenwashing. i wonder how they find people who are okay with doing this. that’s some super villain level evil right there
I wish there was something the average person could do to force the change, but most of the world has people so desperate to work for and consume from the very industries killing the planet so we can eat and shelter ourselves, that change is nearly impossible.
So instead, I’m not having kids (also too broke for this anyhow), and consume as little as possible by buying things used, sell/donate things I don’t use etc. I may not be able to change the system, but I can refuse participating as much as possible!
I’m sure the thought of the people who are okay with it is “the major effects will be after I’m dead and in the here and now I’m rich”
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Chinese and US militaries are both the biggest polluters on the entire planet, and yet I have to be the one making sacrifices such as fucking drinking from a floppy paper straw.
With a plastic lid…
I read something the other day how people in charge are considering geoengineering- altering the atmosphere to reflect a little more sun, “significantly cooling the Earth in only a few years”. Obviously more research needs done but it’s not necessarily hopeless, the dog-fucking oil companies could continue to rape the Earth for generations to come.
literally the basis and canon for the matrix movies
Not exactly, the humans burned the atmosphere to block all sunlight to try to starve the machines of energy. It will only get that bad after we royally fuck up our attempt to only block a little bit of sunlight.
Cave party at my place!
Ayo!
So like… what actually should one be doing to prepare for this kind of stuff? Is the average emergency prep kit good enough or are there other things that can/should be done? (short of fully relocating because in this economy that’s not possible either)
Wow it’s like perfect timing to say it in this meta but learn how to grow beans dawg. You can grow up to 2000lbs of beans per acre. Dry beans don’t lose all their nutritional value until about 5 years on the shelf. Protein dawg. Carbs dawg. Good start to the whole not dying thing should food insecurity hit your area.
I mean a bunker with replacement parts for a good sump pump ain’t such a bad idea either if you can keep the power going.
it’s raining beans here
Is this a shop or are the fortune cookie people becoming uncomfortably honest?
I know, hence the quote on my profile:
“It’s not the end of the world but you can see it from here.”
