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It's beginning to look a bit like we're all gonna fucking die

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How the fuck am I meant to stay calm during this, huh?
The horrid existential dread from this whole thing pins me down.
I can't deal with it, frankly.

Why the fuck am I working and earning money like it's gonna mean shit all in a decade or 2.

I should be moving to the coldest place it's financially possible for me to do so and start doomsday prepping.
Probably not even feasible. How you gonna buy a lifetime of food and not have it expire? How you gonna afford it?
And how will I protect it from bandits?

I really don't wanna die.

Edit: Thread titled needs to be sang to the tune of "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"
 
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Bear Patrol

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I'm sorry to say that it began to look like we were going to die to climate change a couple of decades ago at least. We've been racing towards a cliff and forget braking or turning away...we're just now considering taking our foot off the accelerator pedal.

That said, I have the same view as you. My parents and me and my wife are heavily cosidering moving to the friendliest, northern-most country we can. The sad part is that not many will have the resources to take even that step.
 
Akira86

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you need a fast car, a shotgun, a dog, some shoulderpads and knee pads, an autogyro, and hopefully a boat.
 
SolVanderlyn

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In the inevitable collapse of society where people will murder for drops of gasoline, you must rise to the top and lead your gang to dominance over the wasteland.
 
ShadowAUS

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Yeah, the existential dread has certainly kicked in over this past year, doubly so over the past couple of months. But I mean - there really isn't any other choice. You live, you fight, you move forwards and do the best that you can, whether you grow old and happy with a family and die naturally in 80 years or if it means that you walk out of your house tomorrow only to get hit and killed by a drunk driver. You vote, you campaign for what's good and what's right, you protest against injustice, you do your best to help others - especially those that can't help themselves and you keep living to try to make your life the best that it possibly can in this one attempt you have, that's all any single individual can do.

At least that's the conclusion on how to live my life I came to after surviving my suicide attempt several years ago. *shrug* I don't know if it's right but it's how I've chosen to move forward in these turbulent times.
 
Wackamole

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Let your wallet and your VOTE speak. Try to be a good example.
Not much more you can realistically do. Or be really smart and invent stuff that turns loads of co2 into stuff we can actually use.
 

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That can't be an accurate photo, right? Something has to be wrong with it or context if missing. The developed nation of Australia with its tiny population density shouldn't have the need or be able to deforest that large of an area in a decade.

Tree cover is actually increasing globally, from my understanding, due to agricultural abandonment in Asia, Europe, and North America. Plus China's planting a lot of trees.
 
RedSonja

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No, I don't think we'll all die. It'll get harder, things will get more expensive, there'll be less choice and people might need to think a lot more about family planning. It'll be sort of like the first quarter of Interstellar, I imagine, Would be horrible to live in a third world country (a very sad state of affairs) and get ready for an awful lot of upheaval.
 
dabig2

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Powdered Egg said:
"Turn your grief into action."
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But please don't light yourself on fire OP. The future is looking like shit, but it's not guaranteed. We need to do everything to avoid further rises in the temperature. 1C is already kind shitty, 2C will be exponentially worse. And I don't want to talk about 3C and 4C or above. So I very much want our governments to actually join together, be serious about this, and let's get our Green New Deal working.

In the meanwhile, you just gotta be aware of your area, look into reports, and plan ahead. Obviously don't buy ocean front property. If you're in a hotspot that is predicted to just get hotter, think of an exit plan years ahead of when you might like.

Key word here is mitigation. Because that's going to be our main goal going forward. We're not solving climate change. The earth is going to warm for millennia more. But we can do a lot now to at least survive and give future generations a better shot at survival.
 
Brown Intruder

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You don't need to go somewhere cold.

You need to be living somewhere that is technologically advanced and has a small population..,

Like Australia where you are already. Yeah it will get hotter, but with the large landmass, technology and a small population, it will be easier in the long run.

Whereas Europe for example is relatively small but has a massive population that will need feeding once the crops start to fail.

Or should the melting ice caps disrupt the Gulf Stream bringing about a new ice age, again the situation in Oz is favorable. Also, I think that I am right in saying that Australia wasn't that affected by the last ice age.

Whatever the situation, I would say that you are already in the best place to absorb the problems in the long run
 
Kemono

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I get not liking the way it goes OP but you seem to live in australia... A whole continentfor around 25 million people and far away from others. Not going to say it'll be easy for you but i'm sure you'll survive without having to live in a mad max movie.
 
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People like to tell themselves "Oh, we'll probably fix it somehow, haha if you are so worried why don't you protest?"
Seriously, I imagine the most well informed people are bracing themselves for an extinction event.
And if you are a world leader you can't just turn around and tell society that we are in an apocalypse, it'd be instant riots and chaos.
This shit ain't stopping.
It'd essentially require completely breaking down society, and rebuilding it from scratch, while somehow avoiding problems inherit in every single human society that has ever existed.

Stop telling me to take action against it. The only option is to flee and prep and hope to extend my own life as well as whoever joins me as much as possible.
 
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Ecotic said:
That can't be an accurate photo, right? Something has to be wrong with it or context if missing. The developed nation of Australia with its tiny population density shouldn't have the need or be able to deforest that large of an area in a decade.

Tree cover is actually increasing globally, from my understanding, due to agricultural abandonment in Asia, Europe, and North America. Plus China's planting a lot of trees.
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It all burnt down or dried up in the drought.

It's not human deforestation.
 
Haze

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Live every day to the fullest and love the people around you. We should all do what we can to minimize our impact and extend the time we have here but at the same time, there's no sense in letting this create existential dread that ruins the time you do have.

Life is finite and I could die tomorrow. I could also live all the way to whenever/if ever shit does completely hit the fan.
 
Castamere

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Kemono said:
I get not liking the way it goes OP but you seem to live in australia... A whole continentfor around 25 million people and far away from others. Not going to say it'll be easy for you but i'm sure you'll survive without having to live in a mad max movie.
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idk. What happens when the spiders get hungry?
 
timrtabor123

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We will hit a point with famine and political instability will be norms for a few decades but I'm not sold on MAD crumbling just yet (most versions of climate apocalypse I've seen involve nuclear resource wars). People are dumb and shortsighted but not crazy.
 
game-biz

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Will the US be a good place to stay? US citizen here. Although chances are I'll be dead by the time shit really hits the fan...
 
fleet

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look i'm not trying to downplay the severity of the event (i am australian) but yes that is what a satellite photo is going to look like after a huge bushfire. the good news (if you can call it that) is that australian native plants tend to grow and thrive after bushfires and in a month that photo will start looking green again.

climate change is real and scomo is a dickhead but we're not doomed, things will regrow, the plants and the animals will slowly come back.
 
terminaljeremy

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Get angry, get out there and start fucking shit up. All the student strikes etc are fine but imagine if those kids realised that they could all just walk into Parliament and sit down and not move until somethng was done. Or block a few streets in Sydney for half a day. Things will start to change pretty fast once business gets its nose put out of joint.
 
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I used to live in a place that regularly hit 50 degrees and constantly had bush fires for about 10 years and my dad lived in the same place for about 35. We're still alive.
 
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Climate change is a real and pressing concern, but we feel that the framing of the thread may be overly alarmist and will not lead to productive discussion, so the thread is locked.
 
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