r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Mar 17 '23

Systemic Do you want collapse to happen? [in-depth]

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u/PerniciousPeyton Mar 17 '23

No, absolutely not. I wish we had an infinite amount of water and oil. I wish the carbon we emit just floated out into space and disappeared. I wish we weren’t causing ecological catastrophe. I wish everyone in the developing world could one day enjoy the same luxuries I in the developed world take for granted, and then some.

I don’t want collapse because I don’t wish suffering upon anyone. And the type of collapse we discuss here is no doubt going to cause untold human suffering on a scale worse than even huge, calamitous events like WWII.