Kay   

Accurate but depressing comic on choices facing people.

In my neighbourhood today a candidate for #2023Election #NZVotes stood at a street corner and politely answered questions from future voters, all over 50YO. Their concerns may not match those of voters in their 20s and 30s but they'll definitely be voting but maybe thinking of #CostOfLiving not #ClimateEmergency. #NZPol
https://thenib.com/is-human-extinction-the-future/

Existential Crisis | The Nib

Is human extinction the future?

The Nib
Aug 26, 2023 at 4:23amWeb
Show threadJeremyJupiterJones Aug 26, 2023
@Kay We are already witnessing the collapse of society as we know it. When the wealthy elite refuse to pay even the same rate of tax as a McDonald's worker on minimum wage then the basic sustainable mechanisms collectively paid for by society become underfunded and eventually unsustainable. Unable to provide even the basics for people who can't afford it.
Symptoms include rises in retail / domestic crime and social dysfunction. #NZPol #NZVotes2023
Show threadquixoteAug 26, 2023

@Kay I read the predictions of a group of scientists (don't remember who) the likeliest outcome of our current trajectory (doing a bit, not nearly enough).

- environmental consequences evtl. reduce human population to about 3 billion.

- social consequences of that are an +- 1820s-Europe standard of technology & living.

A long way from extinction (for humans).

But the end of this civilization, which I think is the extinction we all feel coming.

Show threadRhinos Worry Me has movedAug 26, 2023

@Kay

Fantastic comic, but sad that it seems to suggest that "what we have to do" is march and wave signs more.

Show threadKay   Aug 26, 2023
@RhinosWorryMe it's a summary of where we are, not a How To guide. If the answer to convincing people to take action was simple, we wouldn't be in this situation.