CONTEXT: I wrote/drew this in 2020. Lol. Happy New Year!
Maybe if we have cheaper gas, burn more oil, buy even more stuff, and concentrate on having a strong economy, things will get better?
Surely we can capitalism our way out of this mess that capitalism created!
Huh. So Sarah lives in L.A. and can accurately predict the future. I gotta ask her about some lotto numbers....
I’ll be honest even as someone who studies the climate pretty extensively I didn’t think it would be this bad yet.
California has wildfires every other year, so that's not that much of a surprise to me.
Not in January and not that destroy entire neighborhoods in urban areas. This is unlike any historical fire in multiple ways.
I understand if you just casually read the news from afar this might seem normal but trust me it isn’t. You might also be suffering from shifting baseline syndrome.
Isn't it all the old grandfathered-in, explicitly not fire safe areas that are burning? The ones that you aren't allowed to build new anymore because they aren't up to fire code? Ones that inspectors have repeatedly stated "hey this is definitely going to burn down"?
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Earth actually lasts another two hundred years from now before catastrophic changes happen, and that’s pretty depressing in the context of what’s already happening irl.
We’re just speed running enshitification.
coz thats where the money is /I would s, but omg
dammit speed running enshittification is obvious profit. I hate your obvious rightness.
We're the cautionary future that was too horrible to contemplate actually happening.
"So it worked! Now I return to 1025 and destroy all the knowledge of this time machine."
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