Is the world really THAT doomed?

[Idiotron]

Forget Marxists.
We're doomed because of air and water pollution.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

A mammal extinction event will probably happen in the future. When? No one knows. Unlikely to happen in our lifetime. Mammals probably have a few more million years to be the dominant class.

Be ready for your land octopus overlords.

If you meant for civilization, major ones crumble after awhile. Once again, likely not in our lifetimes. Civilizations don't fall overnight. Rome's decline was gradual, not instant.

 

[Judge Holden]

Unfortunately no

 

[Urist Steelthrone]

Be ready for your land octopus overlords.

I'm ready for octopus rule. Octopuses can get out of tanks and into the ocean without any prior knowledge. They'll definitely be better rulers than humans.

 

[Longjack Attack]

It just seems that way given the amount of time one has to blow every tiny issue society has into a big hysteria, especially with the whole entire internet at your fingertips. The world will balance itself out in unique ways and will solve it on its own at any give moment individually and collectively.

 

[SmileyTimeDayCare]

Yes.

Given that the universe is going to end at some point...yes.

We aren't going to die because of MUH CLIMATE CHANGE!!! The fucking climate is constantly changing. We will deal with it or we won't but we probably will.

I'd prefer people act more cautiously when it comes to environmental damage but a lot of that damage was done before people had any idea things were bad. A lot of chemicals that people didn't realize were killing people saw wide spread use. My father's generation used to ride their bike behind the DDT truck ffs.

That said the US isn't the problem there anymore. We off-shored our major polluting industries to countries that didn't give a fuck and now they are not giving a fuck on a large scale. There's more reasons than greed that lead to those decisions but that's not really important.

We also aren't going to be killed by MUH CORPORATSEZZZ. They are going to be the reason we don't die(ya know for now). Sure they treat people like shit but without people they can't ISHV and I don't think I'm capable of building a generation ship and I sure as fucking hell don't trust the government to build or develop it so that pretty much leaves it to industry.

And yeah lifespan has been hopping around but that isn't very cut and dry and never has been. You can move that number incredibly if you decide to leave certain data out. What is more important than how many years is how are those years? People are making it to 80-100 with solid function. My grandmother was 100+ and was incredibly sharp and self-sufficient until the last year. I don't really want that unless 100 looks a lot like 60 but that's a whole different discussion.

Short term concern is Corona imho. We have no actual idea of how far it has spread and how many people have actually died from the disease or complications(spoiler alert we never will because China).

I know it is popular to shit on big business because they do shitty things but..nigga look around you. Before the rise of big business people borderline starved. Get an infection? LOL Card Punched TB? Syphilis? Cancer?

Just remember, the next time you see the sunrise or are moved by the sunset or the next time you look into your special gal's eyes as you pound away: We're all going to die. The Earth is going to be destroyed eventually and we are powerless to stop it. The Solar System will go. The galaxy is going to perish. And everything is going to slowly end... .. .

Upside none of us will be around for it nor will our kids or our kids kids or our kids kids kids you get it.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

On a serious note, I think humanity will be pretty fucked when the eventual event comes where we'll lose/corrupt the building blocks for our technology so we'll be Adeptus Mechanicus and have no idea how our stuff works behind basic repairs.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It's possible we'll squeeze by, it's possible we won't, only time will tell.

Ever seen the 1970s movie Soylent Green? It was set in the early 2020s, now, and it predicted by this point the world will have faced utter environmental devastation due to overpopulation, well here we are and things are not nearly at the point where we're having to eat each other.

I will say this though, the next 100 years is going to be sink or swim time for mankind, in another century we will either be in a great place or we'll be extinct or on the verge of it.

But one thing to remember when it comes to climate change is there may be a technofix for the problem, we have technology today that would have seemed like borderline magic to people 100 years ago, who's to say what won't be possible over the course of the 21st century?

 

[AmpleApricots]

The world always was about to go klaboomy as long as I can remember. Started with the atom bomb in my case which was guaranteed to be dropped by any of the big players on the other one any day now because of geopolitical spats by "important people" I don't even remember the names of anymore and most people on her probably never even heard about.

In other words, no. Leave the internet and the echo chambers once in a while. If you have to hear about some big thing on the news, chances are you're to insignificant to affect it anyways so stressing out about it won't help anyone either. Just enjoy the ride. You'll be dead long before humanity as a whole is even close to.

Also a reason many of the older generations don't seem to take environmental issues as serious as they maybe should is oversaturation. I've been hearing that we're five years away from an environmental catastrophe since at least the 70s. It might all be true but they probably cried wolf a little bit too often or didn't pack the information properly for the layman. Here the same goes. You shouldn't go out of your way to destroy the environment but besides that tiny vote you get once every x years you're too insignificant to affect the sweeping changes policies need to be made for. Take care of the people around you, best you can do.

 

[Crabbo]

I don't think the world is doomed enough yet.
Everyone needs to burn more plastics asap

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

This time last century we'd had a world war and a devastating plague.

Now we're mostly at peace and heading into space. Things are good. No amount of 18th century luddite whining about how the machines are coming to take your jerbs or the spics or the jews are going to turn your kids gay is changing that.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

The Marxists, Anarcho-Communists, and SJW's are merely the useful idiots and unwitting toadies for the neoliberal corporate elites,

 

[Syaoran Li]

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Hey, the best useful idiots are the ones who aren't even aware they're getting played.

We saw it when the neocons used the Religious Right as crash dummies and toadies, and now the SJW's and Antifa crowd are being used in the same way by the same corporatists they claim to be opposed to.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

Hey, the best useful idiots are the ones who aren't even aware they're getting played.

We saw it when the neocons used the Religious Right as crash dummies and toadies, and now the SJW's and Antifa crowd are being used in the same way by the same corporatists they claim to be opposed to.

In which way are they being used for what goal?

 

[Syaoran Li]

In which way are they being used for what goal?

Divide and Conquer/Distraction

The neoliberals push the SJW shit to keep people distracted and divided.

The SJW's and champagne socialists bitch about capitalism, but also focus so much on the IdPol bullshit that they pose no real threat to neoliberal corporatists, and the same corporatists can use them to attack anyone who opposes globalism or neoliberalism by branding them as "Nazis" or "Alt-Right" and siccing the SJW social media mobs on them.

Ever notice how woke culture really started taking off after Occupy Wall Street ended? Or how the later Occupy protests were hijacked by early SJW's and became less about making Wall Street accountable for the Great Recession and more about identity politics?

My guess is that Silicon Valley and Wall Street saw the potential threat that a more organized Occupy movement could pose, and so they tapped into the college commie crowd to kill it from within.

In retrospect, Occupy turned out to be a paper tiger from the start, but it sprung up out of nowhere and became a national movement overnight thanks to social media, and considering that this was the same year of the Arab Spring revolts (which were also heavily organized via social media) and I could see the corporate bigwigs seeing the potential danger of the angry masses putting pressure on lawmakers, especially with the 2012 Election coming up.

Looking back at the media coverage of Occupy from 2011-2012, they put a special focus on the SJW college kids preaching intersectional bullshit and events like the Antifa black bloc riots that happened during the West Coast Occupy protests.

Considering the corporate control over the mainstream media, I don't think that coverage was a coincidence.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Depends how doomed you mean, if we're talking humanties extinction or the destruction of all life on earth it's quite unlikely. But an absolute shit storm and a new dark age is looming increasingly closer. The enviroment is fucked, our leadership is a failure and the economy is a house of cards.

If we're very very 'lucky' something simular to the black death 30-60% casualty rate decease will hit world wide which will provide a nice clean resource friendly population burn. If not we get the far more exiting portracted and violent ala 3rd century crisis economic crisis fallout or indus valley ecological collapse.

What I do know is the living will envy the dead.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

In the long term? Oh certainly, things have to die at some point. But we're still billions of years away from that happening, and I don't even think humanity would even be alive for it.

In the short term? Probably not, the Coronavirus is being held quarantine by everyone who's not China, the environment has never been predictable with or without the climate issues we currently face and unless either the sun fires a solar flare or a space rock blindsides us, space wouldn't be much of an issue either.

Personally? I reiterate my first point- Anyone is doomed from pretty much anything and everything/one dies at some point- fatal injuries, disease, freak accidents, heart attacks, dying peacefully; anything goes.

Most likely outcome? Something serious could and probbaly will happen down the line. But what its effects could be, when it could happen, and more importantly, what the trigger would be, is anyone's guess.

 

[escapegoat]

Pretty much every generation fancies itself the final one. It's cause we have a hard time imagining a world without us in it, so some part of us thinks surely it will end with us.

 

[MadStan]

Don't worry about the world, there is nothing to worry about.

Where it is going is obvious. Relish the future because it will be outstanding for the people left to enjoy it.

 

[Ashley Lynne Coulter]

It's big businesses that I'm worried about, the water quality, climate change. These are normal things to worry about. All the denial in the world won't change the fact this world is warming up and temperature increase of the ice caps melting will wreak havoc on our oceans.

The coral is dying, fish nurseries are drying up. Something needs to be done, for sure.