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Assuming no major attempt to stop or reverse climate change happens until the major crises start (Im an American), huge swathes of infrastructure will be destro
by pharrington 11y ago
Assuming no major attempt to stop or reverse climate change happens until the major crises start (Im an American), huge swathes of infrastructure will be destroyed or rendered unusable. To say we've grown used to that infrastructure is a adorably naive understatement; like I'm sitting here eating a genetically engineered animal grown a thousand miles away that was only born so it could be killed, while arguing with hundreds of people simultaneously by mashing my finger into a sheet of sapphire and having light waves beamed into space and back. Modern human is so weird that we're essentially a different species compared to what we were/will be without the current global infrastructure. I'm afraid societies dont have or wont quickly be able to develop the knowledge needed to survive the new planet we're making.
- iamcurious 11y agoWe can build new infrastructure. Europe managed to do that fine after WWIII.
- pharrington 11y agoWell certainly, but the difference is Europe was given loans from decidedly non-postapocalyptic America and they didnt have to worry about understanding an effectively different planet. Reconstruction post climate change isnt really analogous.