Heat. Flood. Fire. Drought. War. Inflation. Welcome to the Age of Extinction.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://eand.co/the-summer-extinction-became-real-d7f7ac23dee9

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My friend has a niece. His sister’s daughter. They still live in the Indian Subcontinent, in an ancient city of artists and poets, of music and literature. A beautiful and learned place. She’s all of five years old — a bright and curious and intelligent little girl. An observant one.

One day, recently — last week — the niece asked her mother a question. A question she began to ask over and over.

“Mommy, where’s the monster?”

At first, her mom dismissed the question. Kids will be kids. They ask all kinds of strange and funny and sometimes jarring questions.

But the daughter kept asking. She’d frown, scrunch up her little face. There was something happening in her tiny world which was out of place. She didn’t understand. Something was wrong. Unnatural. And she needed her mommy, her rock, her guiding light, to give her an explanation. So she, in the determined way little kids of a certain kind can be, wouldn’t take silence or refusal or dismissal or denial for an answer.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. One reason the world powers and oligarchs are pushing so hard now.

They know what the world will be like in the coming decades and they are grabbing all the power and world resources while they can.

The elite hopes to protect themselves from the onslaught.

The rest of us are on our own.

[Doc Sportello]

2. Sad and sick but true

We are headed to a point where it is the top 1 percent, then the next group comprising about 19 percent who exist mostly to enable the 1 percent and then there will be, as you write, the rest of us.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes the elite and their servants will be protected.

A big chunk of humanity will be no longer needed.

[roamer65]

7. Elysium.

That movie may be right on target.

[Irish_Dem]

10. I haven't seen this movie. Will have to look for it.

I just looked it up for a summary.

Yes. I do think the ultra wealthy are considering escape plans.

[Magoo48]

5. Exacerbated by its apathy and denial, by its airbrushing out the ugliness of this truth, humanity

Is crippling our next generations needed sense urgency to prepare and adapt to this looming existential threat.

[Kaleva]

6. Our leaders should be honest and tell folks the battle is very likely lost

and begin efforts to assist people in adapting to what is coming.


Right now, it's pretty much everyone for themselves.

[roamer65]

8. In my freshmen year of college, I wrote a paper about overpopulation in my intro English class.

Instructor didn’t like it, said it was depressing and gave me a “C”.

The guy in front of me, wrote a paper on how to pick up women. He got a “B+”.

The instructor was a vapid moron who wrote for the NYT.

So next paper I wrote some utter drivel and got a “B”.

That has always been a prime example to me of what is wrong with the human race. I have very little confidence we will rise to the challenge.

[NCLefty]

9. Bad Instructor sounds like Bad Boss. Blech.

There's too many of them in the system.

[Kaleva]

11. Individuals are capable of rising to the challenge

of adapting to climate change.

The effects of climate change will not be uniform across the continent or world. Some regions will become less suitable for human habitation, others won't see a great deal of change and some areas will become better suited for human habitation.

I'm fortunate that I and my family live in the Upper Great Lakes region. Summers will become hotter here but the growing season will be longer too. There's no danger of running out of fresh water.