Doomerism is a tool to engender compliance. It's how you get people to divert their time and energy from the here and now to some superstitious fixation on the afterlife.

You were not born at the start of the Holocene Extinction. You will not live to see the end of it. You've got a solid 60 years to do your part in your tiny corner of an enormous planet with eight billion others who all got here thanks to the hard work of 30,000 years of prior human labor. There's absolutely no reason to give up before you've even started.

I reject this level of nihilism. Things are bad, and the future may be bleak, but to give up now is to forfeit any chance of it ever getting better.

A better future IS possible. We CAN build it. We WILL build it.

Upside:

72.8% indicate they are likely to vote for political candidates who support aggressive climate policies.

Climate change is a solvable problem. There just needs to be enough support to create an international organization with a mandate to enforce limits on fossil fuel use.

Isn't that what young people are supposed to think? Stay punk, kids.

I don't think humanity is doomed. Humans are, and life in general is, pretty damn resilient. Even the worst predictions for climate change won't wipe everyone and everything out, but it will change things.

Modern society is what's doomed. There are going to be some hard fucking times ahead, and whatever rises from the ashes won't look anything like today. But something will rise from the ashes, that's pretty much guaranteed.

In 250 years, there will still be grass on the ground and clouds in the sky. Ducks will still land in any body of water they find and do duck things. Ants will still build nests. There will still be fish in the rivers and oceans. There will still be rodents scurrying around who are preyed upon by birds who will still by flying in the sky. And yes, there will still be humans.

We will lose some species. A lot of species. We will lose some people. A lot of people. Cities will crumble, countries will burn, wars will be fought, and once pristine landscapes will be turned to wastelands. But this will not be the final chapter for humanity, and certainly not for life itself. What comes next depends on what knowledge we are able to preserve for future generations, and their ability to access it.

well yes, but the real question is when. The cavet being humanity isn't, our ridiculous civilization is

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/metastatic-modernity-launch/

Even then its disparate, collapse is happening now for some folks, while I'm making it worse by lounging by the pool after a beach walk and doom scrolling.