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I'm hard pressed to point to any ten-year period in which some number of Doomers did not insist The World Is Ending.
Like, take your pick of any ten-year span during the Cold War. That butted right up against the OG World Wars, with a Great Depression breather. Before that you had plagues, famines, and economic crashes that shat all over '08 and COVID.
Westoids live in the wealthiest, easiest, most affluent era of human history. Then someone points out "hey, eating burger every day isn't sustainable" and they conclude the world is over.
Go outside, there are no bugs. We've lost nearly all biodiversity. It's over bud.
I drove from Victoria BC to Fairbanks AK three years ago without washing my windshield.
My neighborhood is alive with cicadas every night and there's no shortage of mosquitoes biting.
I'm inside the Houston loop, too. Not out in the boonies. Spiderwebs in my garage. Toads in my drainage ditch. I assume they're eating something.
That's pretty normal in the winter. Try it again after a big rainstorm.
Was June 2021
You want bugs? Drive through Florida.
I'm happy to report there are still plenty of bugs outside the US. So by your evidence at the very worst, just the US is ending :)
I'm in British Columbia
Be honest though when is the last time you've seen a butterfly?
Legitimately in the last two weeks, I forget which day specifically it was. But admittedly that was fairly unusually. But just yesterday I was sitting outside and saw a couple bees, and it is only the start of spring
You didn't get bugs on your windshield so now you're be forever alone? You're just catastrophizing. This is literally just baby stepping from a silly premise to a wild conclusion.
Look, calling yourself undateable is always a self fulfilling prophecy. You have to know on some level that it's still possible if you put in the effort right? There are TONS of childless single women out there.
I'm alone by choice as I explained in my original comment. What don't you understand?
I already had a childless marriage which resulted in me losing half my wealth and most of my friends.
And yes the lack of bugs means that the entire ecosystem is dying. It's kind of a big deal
I imagine you will continue to get disliked and I will as well, but the world isn't over and it's not going to end for a long time. People are always going to claim doom in their current time.
No matter how fucked everything is in the world right now, we are, on average, still significantly better off than almost every other human in all of existence.
But the trend line is definitely going in the wrong direction. We are past our peak.
Why? Most of the world living better than 20 years ago and way better than 50 years ago, so the trend looks positive.
I'd take 2005 over now
For our lifetime maybe, but on a larger scale that is relevant to humanity as a species the trend down isn't even visible.
Again not trying to mitigate human suffering today, but I do really take issue with people dooming all the time.
What are your thoughts on climate change and increase in environmental toxins (e.g. PFAS and microplastics)? I don't see a positive light at the end of the tunnel on this.
All bad things that humanity has caused and will likely continue to make worse. No sugar coating that. However humanity has a knack for survival, and we are capable of what is basically magic with modern day science.
I don't have a prediction for the future but I know when push comes to shove and we're forced to take action to survive we will find a way. How I wish we would take serious actions to correct the bad we are doing before that though.
And that must mean that existence is suffering. Lol
xD agree on that point