The Threats are Closing In

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Bear to the right of the middle bear.

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Collapsosaur@reddit

Umm, you left out a few. Financial collapse, energy shortage, explosive methane leaks, heat stress, food shortages, radon gas release, super bugs on crops and people... Need a smaller font.

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Grouchy_Ad_3705@reddit

And the meltdown of nuclear power stations when the daily maintenance can not be performed.

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Sandrawg@reddit

Or the nuclear waste rising to the surface

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That will trigger the collapse of our ozone layer when all the free chlorine gets up there, per McPherson. Everyone will be sun burnt if they survive the radiation or particulate radionuclides that will go *everywhere*.

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KnowledgeMediocre404@reddit

Wouldn’t the methane leaks, heat stress, food shortages and super bugs be enveloped in climate change? It’s not a bear in a tree, it’s 50 murderous goblins working together to move a bear suit.

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Sicom81@reddit

In the picture all the threats are encroaching on humanity...but humanity is the cause

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silverum@reddit

Those of us that arrived in the last 70 years or so were doomed long ago by our ancestors. Yes of course many of us have made it way worse since but collapse and ruin was always inevitable.

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Conscious-Search-920@reddit

who's to say had we been in our ancestors shoes we'd have acted any different? maybe it's just human nature, man is short-sighted, greedy, and not very smart, not very rational. chaotic. it's unavoidable. doomed by design. that's why humanity, is the cause

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Sandrawg@reddit

Evolution did us in. Ironically.

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DestroyTheMatrix_3@reddit

Arguably, some people did though. Weren't a lot of people starting communes and homesteads, opting out back in the day? It's just that there Weren't enough people who went that route.

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Grouchy_Ad_3705@reddit

Interesting evolutionary feature to have a small percentage be somehow different. To bad the percentage of humans caring for the earth was never big enough.

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silverum@reddit

Arguably it would be the same thing, although it is theoretically possible that a civilization full of science that said “hey increased burning of fossil fuels is gonna lead to realbadstuff and also population growth in humans REALLY needs to not grow exponentially” could have been wiser. Regardless, the damage is way past done already. It’s either miraculous intervention or it’s collapse.

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Conscious-Search-920@reddit

my point is that I just don't think a civilization "full of science" that takes a course of action based on rational conclusions from the data to prevent harm on the long term and sacrifice things on the short term could ever exist, due to the human nature that I'm talking about..

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Yongaia@reddit

A civilization no, a society yes and many of them were wiped out by said civilizations.

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silverum@reddit

Idk I don’t think that’s universally true of all humans. There are men and women who plant acorns to make trees in whose shade they will never sit, but if we just have the one planet and the greedy and short sighted and vile and holders of power are always winning, destruction will always be the outcome. All it takes is some middle eastern oil baron’s nonsense vanity project to wipe out any positive change from a state’s climate policy improving.

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Conscious-Search-920@reddit

I think the good are rare, and the bad are most of the time the more powerful - so the change is in their hands, and they choose bad. I am not the most eloquent so it's hard for me to translate my message. but this is getting too Philosophy 201, so basically there is no answer [:

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silverum@reddit

It’s been too late for us for a long time. Probably much earlier than the lifetime of most of us. Now that most of the people who decided on the basics of the world we live in are dead and gone, the rest of us have little power to change what has already been wrought.

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jahmoke@reddit

everything goes extinct

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silverum@reddit

Faster than expected, too

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dazz_i@reddit

only forgot overpopulation

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Fevercrumb1649@reddit

Why are 1%’ers in the ark?

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FreshlySqueezedToGo@reddit

Have you checked out Neom?

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md54short@reddit

Is that the Saudi line thingy?

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FreshlySqueezedToGo@reddit

Yep, I call it the ark Because they are building that shit for the end of the world imo And we sure as shit ain’t invited

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canibal_cabin@reddit

I'm sure violent future super storms , hail and sandstorms are totally not a problem for that particular design. It totally does not function as a giant sail or anything....

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FreshlySqueezedToGo@reddit

for some reason I think they'll be fine/build in ways to control for wind

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canibal_cabin@reddit

Not the way it's currently designed, it's on two sides basically a miles long super skyscraper.

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Mogwai987@reddit

It’s part of the plan. Once the sea level rises it’s gonna float away on the high seas yaaaar

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FreshlySqueezedToGo@reddit

guarantee you that they can handle sea level rise in the red sea/gulf of acaba no problem... also guarantee you that the floating industrial city being built to support the line will also be fine https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/oxagon

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Mogwai987@reddit

Can I interest you in purchasing a bridge?

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FreshlySqueezedToGo@reddit

They’re going to build these, they are an authoritarian state with unlimited oil money You probably couldn’t put a shelf together

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Mogwai987@reddit

I’m not sure what my DIY skills have to do with some oil barons building a magical money pit in the desert, but I gather you are fond of it. You have your reasons, I’m sure…but to say that I’m sceptical would be a galactic understatement.

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FreshlySqueezedToGo@reddit

Not fond of it honestly But I do believe they are building interesting things that I not people at my income level will never live to see The descendants of oil barons will populate the earth

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Paraceratherium@reddit

Just wait in a bunker until the climate improves bro. /s Considering changes in mental health from short periods of Covid lockdown, I can see most of these bunkers becoming Fallout-esque scenarios, where the 1% descend into cabin fever and private security take over.

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Typically it's believed that the rich think they can just fuck off to an island bunker or escape in a spaceship to Mars or something.

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SlenderMan69@reddit

I’m that bird

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Impossible_Map_2355@reddit

Should have two people in trouble trying to kill each other. Lol.

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jedrider@reddit

I think we need to develop a new version of the Game of Life. We can call it the Climate Change Game or just Game to Hell, idk.

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PseudoEmpthy@reddit

nooclear warr <3

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Nathan-Stubblefield@reddit

In the tradition of Eisenhower and Carter, “Nucular war.”

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Princessk8--@reddit

Why is activists on here like it's one of the threats lol

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

They are suppose to represent the toy soldiers coming to save the little boy.

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karl-pops-alot@reddit

Why are activists on the list?

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

They are suppose to represent the toy soldiers coming to save the little boy.

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Poonce@reddit

Don't forget the interdimentional living plasma beings of whatever. Getting trippy out here, folks

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Gott_ist_tot@reddit

Hey, I was just watching "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" last night. Good movie.

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Viral-Hacka@reddit

Activists? How are they a threat?

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

They are not. The toy soldiers(activists) are attempting to save the boy.

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Xamzarqan@reddit

Are the birds penguins?

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

I suppose, the polar bears are rather strange looking and the "penguins" look to be in the same-ish style.

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Xamzarqan@reddit

Tbh with you, methinks the bears were some giant ground sloths at first lol

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Yea, it's all completely fantastical, the mass extinction tag hides that bears "nose horns". They look like narwhal tusks.

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Kamdev_6sex6@reddit

Events in the picture are closer than they appear !

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Lareinaparasiempre@reddit

Yep

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throwawayyyycuk@reddit

Are those polar bears?

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

You know it!

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throwawayyyycuk@reddit

Scariest depiction of them I’ve ever seen

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Yes I was immediately hit by it. I try to post every casual Friday and there is a flicker user that has like 1,000s of horrific art pieces that I typically look into until I find something I like. This guys got everything from classic paintings to horror movie box art to pulp comic covers.

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throwawayyyycuk@reddit

Cool! I don’t know if this is true or not, but I heard somewhere that when Inuit got too old to chew up food for babies, they left their family and went out on the ice and laid down for a polar bear to come eat them. True rumor.

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

I have heard something to that effect too. Didn't know about the polar bear component though. Yikes!

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AnastasiaMoon@reddit

Throw Ai in there

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Oh he in there.

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Illustrious_Ice_4587@reddit

I didn't see it at first either

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Enkaybee@reddit

Authoritarianism seems to be minding his own business back there.

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Oh no, he's clearly after the activists.

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nepal94@reddit

I think the tools of social engineering are the weapons of mass destruction of our time.

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Cordistan@reddit

Let's get more memes going. This sub is weird.

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Hilda-Ashe@reddit

It's only weird during Friday.

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Ancient-Being-3227@reddit

Won’t be long now! I give it a couple of years. 5 tops.

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px7j9jlLJ1@reddit

What no AI

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Ai's the bear with the tongue out off to the right of the climate change bear.

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diedlikeCambyses@reddit

But what about the grinding apathy of atomised consumer bots who can nolonger consume and are dropping out as society fractures and whimpers? Which one is that?

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KnowledgeMediocre404@reddit

Isn’t that gen z?

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modifyandsever@reddit

(distant screaming)

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RedBaron1917@reddit

Lmao

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JulianCribb@reddit

There are ten catastrophic threats to humanity. They, and their solutions, are described in ‘How to Fix a Broken Planet’ (Cambridge 2023). However,most humans do not want to fix them. [https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-science/how-fix-broken-planet-advice-surviving-21st-century] Also, please see website of Council for the Human Future. https://humanfuture.org/

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futurefirestorm@reddit

But we all need to keep our wits about us, so we don’t add another category which is called depression or anxiety. We just have to be cognizant of all the collapsing that’s going on around us, but we also have to just live our lives as happily as we can, with our families.

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hannahbananaballs2@reddit

HURRY UP!

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StatementBot@reddit

The following submission statement was provided by /u/WigginTwin: --- SS: Credit art from the book "From Nowhere To The North Pole", written by Tom Hood, Illustrated by W.Brunton and E.C. Barnes, 1875. Collapse related as many, many tipping points are extremely close to going over within a decade or so, if not already in some narrow vectors. An unsettling picture from a old children's book, depicting the helpless little boy and his almost certain death at the hands of several massive beasts. Tried to convey each figure as a player in our current space. The birds could be media IMO. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1ayaxlp/the_threats_are_closing_in/krtj49v/

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HolidayLiving689@reddit

I just consider mass extinction, disease and increased conflict as more parts of climate change. But ya, all this cant come soon enough.

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

Agreed. I really didn't parse through true avenues to destruction, just hit upon the major talked about points, going fast and lazy here on a casual Friday.

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WigginTwin@reddit (OP)

SS: Credit art from the book "From Nowhere To The North Pole", written by Tom Hood, Illustrated by W.Brunton and E.C. Barnes, 1875. Collapse related as many, many tipping points are extremely close to going over within a decade or so, if not already in some narrow vectors. An unsettling picture from a old children's book, depicting the helpless little boy and his almost certain death at the hands of several massive beasts. Tried to convey each figure as a player in our current space. The birds could be media IMO.

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