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Translation: we will go extinct, soonish.

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Lee Camp [Redacted]

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Sep 10, 2018

135 months. We have 135 months until the planet passes the point of no return for runaway global warming. After that point (2030) we will inevitably go extinct according to the Global Commission on the Economy & Climate.

11:36 PM · Sep 10, 2018·Twitter Web Client

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

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Sep 10, 2018

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But, what, you were expecting to come out of this alive? o.o

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

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Sep 10, 2018

I'm half-expecting some psychopath to do the math and just find a way to kill upwards of a couple billion people within a decade or so. But that seems like a pretty lame bet to be taking.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

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Sep 10, 2018

Everything accelerating ever faster into oblivion is giving me such a massive injection of fatalism, I'm actually starting to enjoy life more. Crisis yoga best yoga.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

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Sep 10, 2018

If the prognosis isn't 'it can't get worse,' but 'it will keep getting worse, faster and faster,' then it's hard to argue in favor of pessimism. What's the point of being a pessimist if you have to keep adjusting expectations downwards anyway?

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

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Sep 10, 2018

I think people underestimate how extremely terrible we are at living together, as a species. It is entirely possible to end up in situations so shitty that they stop bothering you. To actually *keep* people miserable, now, that takes some effort. And yet we make that effort.

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