Hate to break it to you bud. The world isn't ending. It's going to still be here. Humanity is going to still be here. We're going to survive the worst of it and continue going. It'll get real hard but at no point are we looking at the end of the world or of humanity. The stuff that'll be really bad won't be any time soon. Probably not in your lifetime. You can go ahead and live your life and have fun.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The world isn’t ending.

As far as our civilization is concerned, it is. Global warming will cause desperate wars over rapidly dwindling resources like food and inhabitable land, and desperate people with a nuclear arsenal and nothing to lose will be intensely tempted to launch their nukes. Sooner or later, someone will, and then humanity as we know it will be gone. Only scattered groups of survivors and rich people in bunkers will remain after that.

It’ll get real hard

That's quite an understatement…

The stuff that’ll be really bad won’t be any time soon. Probably not in your lifetime.

It was 115°F in Portland, Oregon a couple of years ago. That is an absurd, beyond-the-pale temperature for this part of the world. Global warming isn't some distant threat for future generations to worry about; it's here and now.

You can go ahead and live your life and have fun.

I'm already not having fun. Cost of living is skyrocketing. I'll be lucky to still have a roof over my head in a few years. And that's assuming global warming stops right now and doesn't make the situation any worse, which is of course a blatantly unrealistic assumption.