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All of that is bad, but it hardly sounds apocalyptic. I don't doubt that we're going to get there, but until we see whole cities abandoned, people starving en m
by 0xffff2 7y ago
All of that is bad, but it hardly sounds apocalyptic. I don't doubt that we're going to get there, but until we see whole cities abandoned, people starving en mass, and similar events, calling things "apocalyptic" comes across as hyperbolic.
- jbattle 7y agoCape Town came damn close in 2018
- SlowRobotAhead 7y agoHaving spent enough time in ZA, you can find something considered near apocalypse every other Tuesday. Necklacing Namibians for example in the street has nothing to do with climate.
- shakna 7y agoThe damage will be irreversible by the time these events are seen. It gets called apocalyptic because we're heading to a future where they become inevitable, not that they exist today. You need to get out of the car before the car crashes into a giant ball of flame. But saying that it hasn't exploded yet isn't an argument that there won't be flames.
- 0xffff2 7y agoThe damage is irreversible now, as evidenced by the fact that we are doing virtually nothing at a global level to even slow down, much less reverse, the damage. That still doesn't make current events apocalyptic. Harbingers of the apocalypse maybe, but the apocalypse is the fireball. It's not apocalyptic until we crash.