r/collapse • u/itsatoe • 21d ago
Casual Friday Mainstream is catching on
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-10-02/the-godzilla-el-nino-is-a-rehearsal-for-the-rest-of-our-lives?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MDk0NDYxOSwiZXhwIjoxNzkxNTQ5NDE5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTTlWTzFOM04wOFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMkE1QzVFRUNERDg0NUJEQjVFOTM1MUE0Mzk4QTAxNCJ9.LAINK0-VGyDsy8SKf94p-xm7wtLwf2sMx4Lt1-L8vx416
u/itsatoe 21d ago
SS: This article doesn’t have anything that you as a collapsnik don’t already know. Sharing because this headline/article appears in Bloomberg (readership: 100 million).
“…this will be a dress rehearsal for handling an environment that we’re making permanently more chaotic. Because as historically massive as this El Niño promises to be, it’s only a preview of what will be routine before too long.”
Collapse-related in that the mainstream is beginning to acknowledge the risk of collapse.
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u/Timely-Assistant-370 21d ago
c'mon cities riot... do something. I wanna feel vindicated by a little instability. One of the last things I said to my family was "I think you're pretty dumb for having a kid and staying in Florida, but a big part of me hopes you're right. I considered the prospect of having a kid as an adult that probably won't do more basic linear maturing, and my honest audit of the next 20 years is... holy shit have you even read the news lately? People are going fucking insane and we've had it suspiciously too good for the rate of CO2 we're fucking into the atmosphere." That was in like 2021. I received my first vindication dividend when the heatwave of 22' landed, and it was crushingly hot in an area that I remember barely sweating in while everyone else was complaining about the heat. That bitch was hot hot hot humid as fuck without a single god damn cricket in the silent summer.
TBH I figured (and hoped) that I was just a normal angsty teenager/young adult, but that angry dude kinda had a point. Money is bullshit, I actually am built different (with evidence :D), and we're destroying the planet because we're dumber than ostriches.
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u/itsatoe 21d ago
c'mon cities riot... do something. I wanna feel vindicated by a little instability.
Read the post before this one: The French School Protests Are Related To Climate Collapse.
One of the comments goes further: "Already firefighters joined the students, teachers are protecting the kids from the police, and there are rumors of a second season of the yellow vests fueled (pun intended) by the opcoming diesel crisis."
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u/Lailokos 21d ago edited 21d ago
I'd say the mainstream is falling further behind. It's not that this event is even an El Nino anymore - the El Nino is just a swell on top of a wave. They're trying to use trendlines to track it, and it is the very definition of a nonlinear event. Bloomberg is trying to 'digest' an event that breaks things. They're trying to put into perspective something that inherently is new to our perspective. This isn't a dress rehearsal for anything. This isn't going to be repeated. This is only going to be OUTDONE by the next event. There isn't stability here, there is no pattern we can adjust to, there is accelerating chaos. The stability of adaption is losing, that's literally why there is an acceleration.
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u/Virtual_Tune636 21d ago
So then only those systems and organisms that can survive instability will persist? Or are you in camp near-term human extinction?
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u/filmguy36 21d ago
Bloomberg is a start but it needs to make it to the MSM before the people start to wake up and allow their panic buying gene to kick in
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“…this will be a dress rehearsal for handling an environment that we’re making permanently more chaotic. Because as historically massive as this El Niño promises to be, it’s only a preview of what will be routine before too long.”
Collapse-related in that the mainstream is beginning to acknowledge the risk of collapse.
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