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1. graype+S4[view] [source] 2024-01-08 12:13:33
>>Berisl+(OP)
I don’t use the hide button much on this site but I think I’ll make better use of it this year. Things like this ruin my day if I read thru them.

Yes, things are bad. I don’t think that painting the bleakest, most depressing mental image possible is good for me though.

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2. quonn+p5[view] [source] 2024-01-08 12:18:34
>>graype+S4
It's not good for anyone, since it causes people to give up on any meaningful improvements.

Furthermore it's probably wrong, too. Just after my mom finished school, some people were talking about how the number of diabetics is rapidly rising so that soon there would not be enough land to raise all the pigs required to get the insulin.

This was just before synthetic insulin was invented.

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3. Shrezz+56[view] [source] 2024-01-08 12:23:24
>>quonn+p5
The article isn't an admission of failure & call to abandon all hope. It's a call to action, aiming to mitigate the worst impacts of the polycrisis.
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4. disgru+t6[view] [source] 2024-01-08 12:25:51
>>Shrezz+56
Did you read the same article as I did?

I read most of it (I would have preferred study links so I could look at the uncertainties but whatevs) and it basically just said, everything's fucked and our only hope is to go back to small scale agriculture (which would require massive, massive population loss).

Like, the next century is gonna be touch and go for humanity (certainly at our current levels of technological sophistication) but just saying we're doomed is entirely unhelpful.

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