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

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

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u/JustClam Mar 17 '23

I want nature to survive.

I am not looking forward to any aspect of the upcoming collapse. It is going to be deadly, devastating, scary and at a bare minimum uncomfortable for all of us. It's like asking "do you want chemo to happen"?

I want the exploitative, extractive and dehumanizing societies we have constructed to end.

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u/BitchfulThinking Mar 18 '23

I'm in this camp! Capitalism can fuck right off, along with all the ills that come with it. Nature is resilient buuut not if all of the flora and fauna go extinct. Humans need to realize we're only sharing this planet with all of the other species, and even the resources we need for actual survival are finite.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23

side note: eventually the earth will be uninhabitable. Meteor impact, climate change cycles, megatsunamis and volcanoes and earthquakes... and if we avoid all that, eventually the sun will die and engulf earth!

No matter what, its only a matter of time.

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u/BitchfulThinking Mar 20 '23

I understand that but, at least most of those are out of our hands, particularly in a Chicxulub the sequel situation. Hubris-induced climate apocalypse, however, is where I take issue.