A taste of third world living

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26. When civilization collapses due to global warming...

...it won't be all at once at 3:35 PM on some Thursday afternoon. It will be like a sweater unraveling, first in one place and then in several places. It starts as one little "exceptional" event in one place, and then spreads, sometimes quickly, sometimes gradually. Fires out of control in one place, heavy tides flooding an ocean-side community in another place, and storms knocking out power in still another place.

Of course the damage gets fixed, but then the next crisis comes a little sooner than they used to come, and after a while there's not enough time to fix the damage from one crisis before the next one arrives and as the crisis events start to overlap, the damage starts becoming cumulative. A forest fire followed by heavy rains and mudslides, or a storm knocking out power in a second location before the first location gets its power back up.

When the effects start overlapping we are witnessing the "gradual" onslaught of global warming and the "gradual" collapse of civilization.