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Death Cults, Doomers and an End of a Civilization(thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)

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asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Even if ALL human sourced carbon emissions ended today, the global warming feedback loops already in motion will end most life. Fossil records show that it has happened before.

The thing about unsustainable systems is that they are by definition unsustainable. Humanity has fucked around and now we are finding out.

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fossil record show rich life at higher temps . alligators in wyoming and palm trees in canada

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asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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rich life at higher temps

Until it goes even higher. The release of sub-permafrost and continental slope methane deposits will push it way past the balmy arctic stage before the feedback ends and equilibrium is regained.

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Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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Interesting essay but it makes a lot of presuppositions about human nature from a very anglo-centric perspective steeped in capitalist realism.

This sort of doomerism is terribly counterproductive and ironically idealistic.

A better world is possible.

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