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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Do you ever feel melancholy.. (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/collapse@lemmy.ml

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..When you're walking through the supermarket?

Like this all could be over in a few years? Our life of quiet convenience and ease, not having to fight or hunt for food. Lives not in constant danger.

And how will we look back on these times? They are good times. Not always, not for everyone, but for most of us. We will look back and remember people quietly going about their business, selecting which juice to buy, contemplating recipes.

I have no idea how bad things will get, or even if entire economies are going to collapse and bring Venezuela level suffering to everyone. But they might.. And that thought played on my mind when I visited the supermarket to buy garlic salt and eco-friendly sandwich bags.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you think about it a bit longer... all those dreadful hours working shitty jobs to afford this surplus in a supermarket? Maybe not worth it.

Just imaging walking down the line in a nice greenhouse or vertical-farm full of self-grown fresh vegetables instead in the future :)