But doing anything about it now might hurt shareholder profits in the next few quarters, so let's just wait until things get even worse – then we can start murdering scapegoats and pray for our neofeudalist techbro overlords to save us
As usual, we'll gauge the collapse by what the stock market is doing and ignore the millions of dead along the way.
the dead will be poor.
As the human population takes a steep decline, the market will also shrink. When people starve to death, they can’t work in your factories or buy your products. That can’t be good for quarterly revenue.
Won’t somebody please think of the profits!
Labor-based production is such 20th century thinking. Modern companies don't try to make products, they try to acquire capital. Intellectual property, industrial capacity, housing, utilities access, etc. Cornering a market is so much more profitable than trying to compete in it.
Why do you think there's so much money going into AI? They can't wait to rid themselves of their human workforce so that humans starving to death won't affect their production targets.
If capitalists get their way, capitalism will outlive humanity. Inefficient humans and their annoying ecosystem dependency will be left to boil to death or something while Von Neumann probes owned by AI-managed corporations spread across the universe. Just imagine, one share in SpaceX would be worth several galaxies. You won't find a better ROI anywhere in the universe!
And mostly urban.
Those risk projections actually look pretty rosy compared to what insurance actuaries are predicting: https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/
The political aptitude for change is very, very strange here in Australia.
I could talk a lot about this but the abridged version is that our farmers are experiencing severe drought or severe flooding, and the political party that claims to represent regional Australians (farmers) want's to discard our emissions targets all together.
As in, we've tried nothing and it's not working so best we just double down on doing nothing. Thankfully these particular idiots are not likely to form government any time soon but they still represent a significant portion of the nation.
Meanwhile, renewables everywhere are surging ahead, everyone is installing roof-top solar, turbines being erected on farms, we're building huge hydrogen production facilities, and it's largely just ignored or worse - people complaining about how it's unsightly or noisy or the grid doesn't like it or whatever.
Yeah, I really struggle to understand it. No-one in the energy industry supports nuclear as far as I can tell and yet people can't see that the Nationals are pushing it as a way to avoid actually doing anything about climate. It's like the Nationals want to make themselves irrelevant by intentionally (through stupidity, willful ignorance or sheer disingenuousness) harming their constituents.
Honestly I think it's simply that "nuclear" is a one-word solution to a complex problem that doesn't require anyone to interrupt their view of the rolling landscape with a noisy turbine. If you start there then you can build up a narrative around how nuclear is the only sensible solution but it's still just vibe-based reasoning.
Dawg why these bigass companies not put solar panels over their parking lots? Free energy and free shade. Cool those hot zones down
It'll stop any day now...
Stop? Baby, it's just getting rolling.
Yeah, how will we profit from those sweet year round arctic sea lanes otherwise?
Gotta have my cheap trinkets overnight! Won't have it any other way!
Any day now...
There it is again That funny feeling
Won't be long now.
It'll take longer than you like.
MAGA - TACO: “no they’re not!”
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