Easily one of his best lines 😂

All good 💜 happens to me all the time, I get it

No, mine is to acknowledge were losing and do it anyway.

read, dumbass

Is that your response to existential crisis? It’s not mine.

Grow up.

If youre asking, its both at the same time. Sometimes even on purpose.

That’s fair

I think it said atmospheric CO2 will double as a result

Lmao we’re so fucked yall, I keep saying…

That’s bad

It’s really good :) the Culture is the author’s ideal utopia, basically, but he does a great job showing complexity and humanity within and around it.

But yeah, in it humans have crazy genetic upgrades that let them manufacture drugs, hormones, etc at will. Most people change sexes at least once in their life, and youre considered odd if you don’t at least try it. One male character loves being pregnant, so every couple years he transitions, has a kid, and then goes back.

Illness, of course, is also unknown. One ship’s population decided to catch colds for the hell of it, nobody had had a cold before. They thought it would be entertaining. Their ship naming conventions are great, too.

I love it all

The sci-fi answer is The Culture

And im not saying they aren’t, or that we shouldn’t do them.

Im saying it’s not nearly what we SHOULD be doing, and we don’t deserve to rest comfortably knowing some techbros and Chinese manufacturing are working on it.

Look at what the rich and powerful are doing. They’re literally preparing for the apocalypse. They’ve lied about climate change time and time again but they know what’s coming.

The US doesn’t exist in isolation, the damage this country does affects everyone. That’s how this works. And it will be the Global South who suffers most, unfairly, as always.

So, again, I tell you to be realistic about the future. Sure yes do everything we can - but deal with the existential crisis now when you’ve still got AC.

Look again i get it, im with you

For me, though, my descendents are right here in front of me. And what’s keeping me going, personally, steers closer to anger than hope. They will suffer. My kids.

Humans 100-200+ years from now will know nothing else. Im sorry for them. But im here now, and now is a time to face facts. Civilization is going to end, for all intents and purposes. Our world, the human world, is dying, and we won’t be able to keep up except as mammals 65mil years ago did, hiding in holes.

What we should be doing now, is avenging the future.

Exactly

Without overthrowing global capitalism, we will absolutely not slow this roll in any meaningful way. Every time someone passes a good law somewhere else a company just ignores it. And so on.

We’ve fucked it. The time to take this seriously was 30, 40 years ago. But PEOPLE IN POWER made sure that climate change was a hoax to half the population so they could keep getting rich. And its been that way since.

Nothing has changed. Nothing. Every month I see widely respected science reporting telling us “oh NO, its much worse than we thought.” Read the actual reporting and tell me, are we doing better? Isn’t AMOC about to collapse no matter what?

Dont get me wrong, I love nature and intend to fight for it every chance I’ve got anyway. Im on the side of life, here.

But im gonna lose.

Hope is a lie. We don’t get to hope anymore. What we need is determination.

Edit: cowards.

Yall just don’t get it. Do all you want, the US Navy ALONE does enough damage every year to doom us all. Are we gonna stop all shipping? Or are we gonna keep doing damage for the next 5-10 years as tipping points get passed? These are self-perpetuating problems, once crossed.

Right now, RIGHT NOW, our world is being murdered. Some life will continue. But we are fucked.

I hope youre right.

That’s the point, though, is we can’t. Once these points are passed, we could literally be at 0 emissions tomorrow and it’ll still keep getting worse.

Do what you can but face facts. We’re fucked.

“Even if we 1.5C” DUDE WE JUST DID CAN YOU NOT READ

Yes we know we’ve got to do everything we can but it everyone in power decides to sacrifice us all for wealth the only option is global revolution and, uh, hit me

Union approved, we all know your pain. Our foremen have their hands full.

“Fully automated luxury gay space communism” is the full phrase fyi

Ding ding ding. The Culture is Star Trek ++.

Gene manipulation that’s so effective you can just will yourself to change sexes, get stoned, be performance-enhanced, whatever

You never have to work if you don’t want to.

I mean, if that’s all they’re wearing…