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>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>Shrezz+56
If it's a call to action, this is the action:

"Now, I’m just waiting for the end while enjoying the time we have left, like someone watching their last sunset."