We’re fucked, aren’t we. This is it. The great filter. We had a shot at progress and advancement, but it got squandered so a couple hundred people could see their imaginary numbers grow. And now it’s too late, the damage is just too great to be mitigated, much less reversed.
We really could be heading for a civilization collapse here. Global economy is highly interconnected at this point, and many countries are far from self sufficient in terms of necessities. At the climate becomes increasingly more unstable we’ll be seeing more and more climate disasters happening. These types of events will lead to a breakdown of global supply chains at which point countries will descend into civil unrest. The best thing countries could be doing right now would be to become as self sufficient as possible in terms of food and energy production.
It’s not even economies that get me. It’s outright catastrophes. In 2010, forest fires in Russia had gotten so bad, entire cities were covered in thick smoke. I still remember being able to look directly at the sun, just a shiny red disk. And most of the fires were hundreds of kilometres away!
Floods, hurricanes. How disaster-proof are our towns and cities? And solving all that would very likely require a conscious and concerted worldwide effort. Something that I doubt could be achieved without a worldwide socialist revolution - something that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon. And by the time it happens - if it happens - it just might be too late.
Like I said, great filter.
Yeah, I agree with all that. We’re driving ourselves to extinction here.
