Only two things fix our climate: They’re both bad.
The climate crisis is raging. People are dying. Between killer storms and killer heat 2024 is shaping up to be brutal.
People just don’t get it. No matter how much we recycle or drive electric cars there is no stopping it. We did it to ourselves.
I don’t worry about thinks like the effect of AI on artists, or who will be president, because it simply doesn’t matter in terms of what we facing in the next thirty years.
Technology energy demands have tipped the scale, so unless we build hundreds of nuclear plants in the next five-years, technology will heat up the earth to the breaking point. I mean we literally have internet cables under the ocean heating up the water and destroying currents. That’s not news by the way. Big Tech can’t fix it so they ignore it.
Same with AGI. We’re spending trillions tilting at windmills pursuing an impossible dream that is killing us. Nobody ever accused humans of being all that aware of things.
There are only two solutions.
- Lose 5 billion people.
- Shut everything down like we did in 2020, and don’t open anything up for at least 200 years.
If that sounds crazy to you it won’t soon enough. We are completely unprepared. We do not have the resources, will, or vision to save ourselves. Yes, it’s that bad so prepare yourself. Move away from the coasts. Move next to fresh water. Move as far north as you can.
I hate be an alarmist and I hate to sound the alarm, but to ignore what’s happening is like sitting down to watch a TV show while your house is on fire.
What do I choose from our two choices? Number two.
Nature is likely to go with number one. A viral plague to kill most of us quickly is a classic Mother Earth choice. She will protect herself.
I was in Manhattan is 2020 and watched the city transform overnight. Number two gives us hope. Not much but something.
Resource wars are already breaking out, so maybe that’s a third choice, the grimmest choice. We end ourselves. A case could easily be made that’s what we’re up to — a deep desire to do away with ourselves and just end it.
Believe me this is as hard to write as to read. But I think we’ve reached a time of truth. No pulling punches. Here it is. If you have any ideas let’s have them. Forget politics, economics, investments, technology. Forget all that. How do we survive? How do our children survive?
