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| ▲ | dwroberts a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| > ours seems to be climate collapse. It used to be nuclear war Except climate collapse is actually happening already, gradually. There were escalating tensions during the Cold War, but it wasn’t like there were actual nukes being dropped in slow motion |
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| ▲ | zeroonetwothree a day ago | parent [-] | | Collapse by definition is not gradual | | |
| ▲ | dwroberts a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Go watch a big chimney stack being demolished. It hangs around in the air for a long time, before it is suddenly gone. But it’s definitely collapsing the whole time. | |
| ▲ | JKCalhoun 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "Gradually, then suddenly.” (Feels like a Hemingway quote fits rather nicely here.) | |
| ▲ | unethical_ban a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is really avoiding the obvious point being made. Here's a other analogy to avoid your criticism: if a plane runs out of gas midair, it doesn't immediately crash, but it's going to. | |
| ▲ | jmye 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ahh, good, parsing words. I can tell you have a lot of useful and interesting things to say. So tired of people trying to pass off pseudointellectual pedanticism as useful or additive insight. |
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| ▲ | mikelitoris a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Buckle down and sort it = wars around the world and mass (and I mean mass) migration |
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| ▲ | acron0 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is global economic collapse not an eschatological scenario? When you say "everything is still getting better", what do you mean? Because the price of fuel and food, isn't getting better. It seems to be getting worse. Your version of "reality" doesn't seem to reflect the experience of a lot of people. > people will buckle down and sort it.
It's an interesting series of words that don't say a lot. There is much to wonder about. |
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| ▲ | roenxi a day ago | parent [-] | | > Is global economic collapse not an eschatological scenario? Not really, no. In this case 20-25% of the world's oil disappearing doesn't sound like it should be an 'everything collapses' scenario, we still have >75% of the oil around and oil isn't the only energy source. Everyone has always seen a "worst economic collapse of my lifetime" and although this one looks like it is going to be unusually horrific it isn't going to cause the end of anything structural unless there are other causes already in place. For example in theory this might be the end of the US military's ability to maintain global order in the same way as the Suiz Crisis humiliated the British empire - it'd be a recognition of realities on the ground rather than the current crisis changing anything. | | |
| ▲ | lbreakjai a day ago | parent [-] | | You're missing that the impact is not evenly distributed. It doesn't mean everyone gets 25% less petrol, tighten the belt a little bit, take one fewer trip to starbucks, and all is well. It means rich countries get the 75% while the poor countries get nothing and starve. What happens when a nuclear power like India starts to lack food? | | |
| ▲ | roenxi a day ago | parent [-] | | > What happens when a nuclear power like India starts to lack food? Personally I think that actually seems a bit unlikely. Most of India's energy doesn't come from oil and doesn't go to agriculture. It seems plausible that the global economy will be able to overcome the food and fertiliser issues even in the short term, there is a lot of food out there. I'm expecting the threat to be more complex economic goods like construction, manufactured goods, leisure and general logistics. I don't want to downplay the risk, famine in India is a scary thought, but I don't really see how we'd get there from closing the Strait of Hormuz without a lot of bad luck. The problem is it is going to materially impoverish a number of people and collapse complex supply chains rather than make it hard to get food to them. | | |
| ▲ | lbreakjai a day ago | parent [-] | | Food quantity has never been the issue. The logistics are. Food is the most direct issue, but "just" the economic turmoil alone is reason enough to worry. No one was starving in the Weimar republic, yet ... | | |
| ▲ | roenxi a day ago | parent [-] | | The logistics of food don't seem to be under any particular threat. The petrol required to get someone survival calories is not so much and the vast majority of traffic on the road is not about getting basic calories to people. I don't think any of the world's nuclear states would struggle to overcome that problem right now. |
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| ▲ | georgemcbay a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > If the clouds turns out to be a really bad storm, people will buckle down and sort it. That'd be cool if it were true, but it isn't. The people with the economic and political power to do anything about it are massively profiting off the storm and care more about that than the damage the storm will do. Why do you think they are all literally building end-times style bunkers these days? |
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| ▲ | gm678 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > You’re getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You’re really overreacting. > Trust me, it’s all going to work out perfect. Nothing bad is going to happen. It’s all under control. > Why do you keep saying these things? I can tell when there’s trouble looming, and I really don’t sense that right now. We’re in control of this situation, and we know what we’re doing. So stop being so pessimistic. > Look, you’ve been proven wrong, so stop talking. You’ve had your say already. Be quiet, okay? Everything’s fine. https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi... |
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| ▲ | crubier a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > If the clouds turns out to be a really bad storm, people will buckle down and sort it. 100% this. People need to understand this. |
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| ▲ | bombcar a day ago | parent [-] | | The other thing is that it is WAY too easy to distract yourself from your solvable problems by focusing on the big ones - you have to fight that with ferocity. Why get out of debt? The country is a brazillian trillion in debt we’re doomed. Why invest for retirement or save? The market is fraud anyway. Why exercise and lose weight? The planet is doomed anyway. | | |
| ▲ | t0bia_s a day ago | parent [-] | | Why are you in debt? Why you need investment for later? Why are you overweight? It sounds like cause of problems are overlooked. |
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