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slippers-
I'm tired of pretending nothing is wrong while the list of wrong things continues to grow.
It would be nice if we could maybe get our shit together enough to at least try to close the stable door before the horse has bolted in this instance.
Because after the shit his the fan, we're going to have a great many fewer options.
Most of us tend to agree with most of what you’ve said here.
That's what I assumed. What I don't understand is getting nothing but pushback. How about some interest in the notion that we might be able to seize some agency and DIY a way out of this?
Kimmo
O rly. So the fact we've only avoided a nuclear exchange so far through dumb luck counts for nothing, I guess.
Or that absolutely fuck-all reason exists to believe we'll meet our woefully insufficient (yet somehow hopelessly ambitious) CO2 reduction targets, while every time climatologists' models improve, it turns out they underestimated the rate of change, and consistently understate their concerns anyway... Not like the precautionary principle should apply here, huh.
Or that something like half to two thirds of the world's population depends on fertilisers we use fossil fuels to create, and AFAIK there's no plan to address that situation if we were to phase out their use - oh wait, that's because there's no plan to phase out their use.
Or that we're one large solar storm away from widespread failure of power grids, with a hopelessly inadequate supply of replacement transformers, meaning many areas would be dark for years. But hey, just keep those fingers crossed. We dodged the bullet in 2012 by nine days, right? Surely our luck will just keep on holding up.
Also, the vast drop in numbers of critters at the bottom of the food chain is actually a good thing; we don't have to clean our windscreens and headlights nearly so much anymore. I'm sure old mate Elon will come to the rescue any minute with self-replicating robot bees.
And of course, covid was a complete aberration, right? That epidemiologists warned us over and over for decades that industrial livestock farming brought such risks was just like the bleating of tree-hugging hippies running out of trees to hug. Stupid scientists, what do they know. Big pharma sorted out all out in only a couple of years - nothing to see here, least of all the precarious fragility of our supply chains it revealed, and the near-total lack of substantive action to reduce the length of those supply chains.
Why do we hate Tories? Is it just a tribal thing, or is it because they're clueless toffs who couldn't give a fuck about the common good? Gee, it sure was a relief to see the back of those cunts, huh. Totally different story under Starmer and Albo. Phew. We can continue abrogating our collective responsibility to the rest of the life on the planet and all future generations to the fiction of representative democracy.
It ain't broke. It ain't. The adults in charge will clean up all the shit.
Fucken Polly. Anna.
This 'system' where most of us have zero agency regarding our collective situation, utterly regardless of what we may have to contribute, while a few insular sociopaths determine the fate of everything? Pretty sub-optimal, if you ask me. I bet it wouldn't be too hard to come up with something better, if we could only learn to disregard all the propaganda of the ruling class which utterly saturates our society...
All those old chestnuts about how this is the least terrible setup predate the communications revolution, but somehow still have currency. Hang on... communications revolution... currency... Hmm