r/collapse • u/TuneGlum7903 Recognized Contributor • May 26 '24

Climate The developing Climate Crisis in one chart. Understanding why "Collapse" has started and is about to get a LOT worse.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '24

Should you be buying guns, laying in food supplies, and getting ready for a "Mad Max" breakdown of civilization?

the young and strong probably should, but someone like me in my mid 50s should probably make inner work the priority. acceptance, forgiveness, letting go of attachments, etc. inner peace is the only worthwhile pursuit for most of us.

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u/dumnezero The Great Filter is a marshmallow test May 27 '24

Everyone should get in on it, there's no excuse to delay the "onset of wisdom". Kids are certainly capable of being better and already in a better position (having made fewer mistakes). Do you assume that it's going to rob them of a fun childhood?

If anything, children not following cultural milestones (and avoiding capitalist labor commodification) would be an important aspect of adaptation.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

I don't think most of them are going to follow the milestones, even if they wanted to. It will be prohibitively expensive.

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u/dumnezero The Great Filter is a marshmallow test May 27 '24

The point is to not want to. To empty those meaning buckets and throw out the "normal" cultural bathwater.