Two weeks ago I finished reading a book about climate change1 that concludes that unfortunately… we are heading for collapse.
Since the institutions that run our world are all stacked up like dominoes against each other—economies, governments, social services—the collapse of one will affect all the others.
The increasing number and severity of natural disasters affects all the dominoes. Running out of oil will affect everything.
The author said that she has watched for 30 years as climate change experts made plans to save the world. They set deadlines for corporations and governments to lower their carbon footprint, convert to clean energy and decrease dependence on oil and gas.
And she has watched deadline after deadline come and go with little or no action taken to prevent impending disaster.
We did not stop the global temperature from rising when we could and now we’ve passed the point where we can reverse course. Collapse is now inevitable.
She finds relief in the admitting of this, in the ceasing of the saccharine charade of hope.
Now we prepare as best we can for the impending collapse of our societal structures. We hold each other through it.
As I read this I found myself gravely nodding along. I put myself in her shoes. How exhausting—mustering up hope again and again only for it to be stamped out again and again. For decades. How frustrating to try to ring the alarm bell every year to a world with its ears plugged.
Welp. We’re heading for collapse I suppose. Hug your people while you can.
Link to full article here.
