Obvious by now that politicians and corporations are going to stay w/the same old bullshit until too many serfs die to keep things running.
Now may be a very good time to figure out how to remove your personal dependence on supply lines, supermarkets, power plants...
Seriously.
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Fast approaching the time when our best hope of species-level survival is if mass die-off kills the decisions that are ruining our ecosystems.
Me? I'm very happy the family has an old farm in a secluded valley, near a major river.
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The Black Death was obviously terrible to live through, but AFAIK, the prevailing theory is it (eventually!!!) did society a lot of good.
So, silver linings. We may just have fucked things up badly enough that we temporarily lose the ability to keep fucking them up worse.
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And yes, when "billions die" is an outcome with higher long-term plausibility of survival, that kind of says something about the scale of response.
We can't be trusted with anything, and this seems to be true for almost any value of "we"!