Something rarely mentioned in the discussion of inevitable forthcoming environmental & socioeconomic collapse is how millions of people (like myself) will lose their lives due to disruptions in the supply chain for essential medications.
I asked my doctor last month if there is a safe way to wean myself off of them if I, for whatever reason, could no longer access my meds. He flat out said "no."
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The destruction of the planet isn't a mistake, isn't a misunderstanding, isn't an accident. It's largely a deliberate process driven by economics and the material reality of the society we live in. Everything that we produce and consume in an industrial civilization is dependent upon the destruction of the planet.
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-- Max Wilbert
The ice sheet is cascading/gushing at unheard of rates never dreamed possible at this stage of global warming, or at any stage for that matter. Greenlands ice sheets are cascading or merging with the sea. #climate#chaos#environmental#collapse
I love how for the last 30 years or so, economic reports have documented the collapse of any sort of middle class while trumpeting the improving economy. If there was ever a symbol for how the system is organized to enrich a few off the toil of many and to the peril of all, stringing this type of articles together through the years it it.
While it’s too late to prevent #ClimateBreakdown and the #collapse of civilization, it’s not too late to prevent more violence and brutality like what we’re witnessing in #Gaza and many other places around the world.
Keep protesting. Keep resisting. Keep standing up for what’s right, no matter how much it hurts.
I was diving through old blog essays in search of something that I guess wasn't there. But along the way, I ran into a writing of mine I called Plutocratic Denial, that's maybe worth a visit by some who, like me, are frustrated by our society's inaction on Climate Change.
The history of capitalism is kind of like a rowdy teenager making bombs in the garage for fun. He blows them up, gets in trouble and has to stop, but goes back after a while and builds a bigger bomb... same thing happens again, two or three times, until he makes a HUGE bomb, and this time he kills everyone. Oops.
With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn #Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and #Authoritarian Backlash
Most of the public seems unaware that global temperatures will soon push past the target to which the U.N. hoped to limit warming, but researchers see social and psychological crises brewing.
Study: We are in the sixth mass extinction event. Earth has already lost and is now missing significant twigs and branches of the tree of life, losing evolutionary morphologies, ecological roles, and ecosystem functions depending on them, among many other things. This mass extinction is transforming the whole biosphere, possibly into a state in which it may be impossible for our current civilization to persist. #collapsehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10523489/