Collapse isn't coming, it's already scheduled (Published by Big Think, featuring Professor Eric Cline)
Posted by SaxManSteve@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 17 comments
xjackrabbitslimx@reddit
So what do we do then?
TheCosmosItself1@reddit
Buy gold and silver, solar panels and batteries, and learn to grow your own food.
Rumhand@reddit
Ok so the last sentence sounds like a rock/metal band callout. I'm now imagining Axl Rose singing "Your're in the jungle baby, buy solar panels and batteries, you're gonna diiiiieeeeee"
jayesper@reddit
"Go forth and die"
diedlikeCambyses@reddit
Well I just checked to daily CO2 given it's April, 431 lol.
ParadeSit@reddit
Maybe I’m stupid, but I don’t understand what good gold and silver will be if things go to shit.
Ozy_Flame@reddit
A healthy acceptance of death as an inevitability and a quick/painless method of when and how to go is going to be a cottage industry in the coming years.
hiddendrugs@reddit
The idea that something can be “done” is part and parcel of modernity. We can do something about problems, but while problems can be solved, predicaments have to be confronted. The problem-solution binary isn’t entirely useful for us. We’re in a difficult transition where the stories we need aren’t readily available, but I imagine that’s one place to start without being too prescriptive.
xjackrabbitslimx@reddit
Great point
SaxManSteve@reddit (OP)
SS: This is clipped from a longer video about the Late Bronze Age collapse. This shorter clipped video, however focuses mainly on the present moment. You would think the title choice from Big Think is quite bold, but just skim the comments and it's wild to see how almost everyone agrees that collapse is occuring and that it's unlikely that modernity can be preserved for much longer...
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FantasticOutside7@reddit
Not “almost as if”, they do. They view the poor as subhumans, and poor is anyone making less than 10 or $100 million a year (or a woman, or people of color, or non-Christian or or or). As Carlin said it’s a small group and you’re not in it.
jayesper@reddit
But that makes them as such. And people are waking up to that fact.
errie_tholluxe@reddit
We live in a simple complex system. And we are breaking down all the chains in ways that cannot be repaired or replaced. Nature might recover itself if given time, but we far outstrip anything Nature could do in the same timescale.
Roofies666@reddit
Thanks for linking to the longer video, definitely going to check that out.
rematar@reddit
It's a good watch.
SinoKast@reddit
look how big that mu's feet are....
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SS: This is clipped from a longer video about the Late Bronze Age collapse. This shorter clipped video, however focuses mainly on the present moment. You would think the title choice from Big Think is quite bold, but just skim the comments and it's wild to see how almost everyone agrees that collapse is occuring and that it's unlikely that modernity can be preserved for much longer...
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