Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?

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10 points·oumua_don17··4 comments

I find it amusing, how Hollywood movies concentrate on factor "external shocks" (alien invasion, diseases,...), ignoring the other factors. Usually in the movies, the problem(s) then gets fixed with the use of nuclear weapons, technology or other science fiction magic. This reenforces the narrative of "even if shit hits the fan, we can still fix this eventually". It neglects carelessly the real dangers of climate change, complexity, environmental degradation and the history of human failure, as described in the article.

We need more disaster movies where we just lose. Ecological collapse, climate change, mass migration, drought and famine, etc.

E.g. civilizations don't end because they "run out of oil" or "encounter some problem", they end because they encounter some problem that they can't deal with.

That scenario seems to be going on with global warming.

It's not entirely fair to "blame capitalism" because even if society was organized in a different way people would still be resistant to sacrifice. (e.g. the "yellow jackets" are a mass movement that hates to pay fuel taxes)

That said, right-wing groups seem to pump an unlimited amount of money into the cause of making society ungovernable. For instance, the "society for Austrian economics" recently posted an article about how Thomas Aquinas wouldn't approve of welfare states. Well, if we brought Thom back to life I wonder how he would approve of the U.S. Healthcare system, Davos, Fox News, etc.

yes, it is just whether it is 10 years or 100 years or 1000 years, etc.

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