So, damn. I was hoping for a very cool report on how we would die instantly in a fiery explosion, but it’s just dumping more carbon into the atmosphere and slowly worsening climate change.
Interesting read, but fuck that site for making the article unreadable for periodic moments to push ads. Probably a mobile specific thing, but cropping the edges off your article as an ad presentation is next level annoyance.
Thank god. I was hoping for an asteroid but this works too. Hurry the fuck up.
You know, I never understood how people comment things like this. The world is messed up, but there is always hope for change, for betterment, for there to be a fresh start in the morning.
Comments like this just released into this kind of depressing echo chamber just spread negativity and hopelessness that is not needed in the world today.
Thanks for saying this.
I think these posts have a way of propagating doomer-think in a way that almost creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. We all collectively assume good will never win so we don’t do anything, so good doesn’t win, but then we collectively at least feel smug and perceptive.
For all of us, but I think especially for younger generations, it’s hard to see any “wins” from the side of good, so it’s tempting and almost comfortable to just make sardonic memes and embrace depressive nihilism. We’ve been conditioned to helplessness.
We laud cynical storytelling about selfish horrible people because it’s “realistic”. We meme about mass-extinction. We see boring-cyberpunk dystopias as our inevitable near future. We doomscroll about each and every terrible rotten thing that happens on every square inch of the planet that we can’t do anything about and believe it’s our fault.
But we gotta combat this with hope if there’s any possibility for a brighter future.
I’m just gonna leave this here. It’s profound and I think of it every day to keep going:
FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.
SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.
FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?
SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
–Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers (film version)
That quote always fills me with hope. Thanks for reminding me of it
Is there hope? You are saying it but I’m not seeing any
Look around. The world has been ending for a long time. Just because it hasn’t been for you doesn’t mean the apocalypse isn’t already here for many people or even most.
I wish I could only selectively see the seemingly fewer and fewer good things in life, but I’ve lived long enough to see how far downhill we’ve gone over the past handful of decades. It’s made even more depressing by the fact of having seen the root cause (mostly aggressive manipulation by the right wing eaten up by selfish masses) of what was an upward trajectory turned to shit needlessly in order to serve as a scoreboard to a pissing match for the ultra-domineering control freaks.
Even if climate change doesn’t make human life completely unbearable for humans on what’s left of the planet, it’s going to take too long to rebalance our living circumstances to see much hope for a good future for the masses. Especially as those at the top work so vociferously against the common interest.
since 2005
Can’t we just nuke it? I hear that works for hurricanes.
/s
No need for nukes, the demonic Democratic deep state can control natural disasters directly. But they are on extended vacation currently.
Yet, they can’t win an election. SMDH.
Don’t need an election to use the space lasers!
(…) Geological phases (…)
First Phlegraean Period. (…)
It is thought that the eruption of the Archiflegreo volcano occurred about 39,280(…) years ago, erupting about 200 km³ (…) of magma (500 km³ (…) bulk volume) to produce the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption. Its Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) was 7 and it left a large part of eastern Europe covered in ash.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields
“crises” is the plural form of crisis.
Reminiscent of a line from Supernatural: “I guess I’m just a little numb to the Earth-shattering revelations at this point.”
These eruptions can eject more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of material into the atmosphere Sounds like a good way of rapidly decreasing global temperatures!
Do you think conservatives will think the dems triggered the volcano or that climate change isn’t real when the world is suddenly colder.
I think Americans always find a way to make it about them.
Well, they’ve generally moved on from “it isn’t real”, to “it’s the natural cycle and out of our control”, so I’m gonna say blame the Dems!
They will argue that NATO should be withdrawn from since “Europe did this”
Naw they will just blame immigrants and brown people. And it will work.
Both. Also something about god’s will.
lol yep volcano eruption maker
These eruptions can eject more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of material into the atmosphere
Sounds like a sky problem, not a “my” problem ☝️😎
And killing all the world’s crops, but sacrifices must be made!
Just increase the size of our seed vault/s.
Most uplifting news I’ve heard in a while, I’ll take it
Are you magma?
The Phlegraean Fields, now considered one massive supervolcano, are beginning to stir, making the scientific community uneasy.
These volcanic fields, nestled just west of Naples, Italy, are among the top eight emitters of volcanic carbon dioxide worldwide.
Oddly enough – this one is on my End Times Bingo Card™
For real though, just throw it on the pile at this point. I’m glad i didn’t have kids, this is a hell of an inheritance the next generation is lining up for
I just love the emphasis that this is not a good thing.
And I beg to differ.
Aren’t nuclear and volcanic winters the only things that could reverse climate change?
Humans die out and global warming is undone. Win/win!
They will cause a cooling effect, but it won’t be a “fix”, just a temporary pause, and once settling occurs heating will bounce back even faster. Nothing will reverse climate change in the sense that we can go back to previous conditions, it’s an ongoing transition into a different climate (even if there was some magic way to permanently cool).
Good. End us already.
