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- cross-posted to:
- earth@hexbear.net
Re: @ZLabe@fediscience.org
It was an unbelievable year for global climate.
As data is released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new climate change records. Apologies for all my graphs in advance!! 😬
See the spiral animation produced by NASA at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190/
The shame is that it will work for the billionaires provided the planet isn’t 100% uninhabitable.
There is going to be some kind of social/governance structure post societal collapse. If they can ride out 1-5 years with their pocket mercenaries and emerge unfucked after the outside world spent years killing each other over scarcer resources, they get to run things. They’ll have the pre-collapse tech, weapons, training, etc and resources to defend it
Well, hilariously the Fallout games actually show why this likely wouldnt work.
Many of the Vaults had one kind or another of societal collapse/revolt within the Vault for many reasons.
Like, if you are in Zuck’s doomsday compound as a security guard… and… money doesnt mean anything any more because the world collapsed… and you can just shoot him and stop following all his insane demands… why wouldnt you?
This kind of thing is also pretty common around the world and throughout history when money kind of stops working.
Ultimately it all comes down to having a functioning society that can afford to have specialized labor roles. They’ll run out of food stores eventually and have to go outside and farm.
Which means farmers, security, you know a society with roles and values and ideologies that convince people its worth continuing on this way…
Its basically imposible to predict anything other than uncertainty and chaos when a shock or collapse of significant magnitude occurs. You could be right! But also possibly not.